The Independent National Electoral Commission has identified security risks, localised electoral violence, vote-buying, hate speech, disinformation and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference as major threats capable of undermining the credibility of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections.
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INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja while receiving a Pre-Election Assessment Mission delegation of the International Republican Institute, led by former United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Jendayi Frazier.
Amupitan said the identified risks could weaken public confidence in the electoral process if they were not effectively addressed.
“Security risks, localised electoral violence, vote-buying, and the rapid proliferation of hate speech, disinformation, and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, FIMI, pose direct threats to voter confidence,” he said.
The visit came three days after the Osun State off-cycle governorship election and a day before the statutory commencement of public campaigns and rallies for the 2027 general elections on Wednesday, August 19.
The INEC chairman said the assessment mission provided the Commission with an independent perspective as it moved into full-scale preparations for the general elections.
He disclosed that INEC was scaling up its operational capacity to deploy approximately 1.4 million ad-hoc personnel across more than 176,000 polling units nationwide during the elections.
Amupitan also said the Commission was deploying the Automated Biometric Identification System, ABIS, under the Continuous Voter Registration framework to identify and eliminate duplicate entries and ensure that the National Register of Voters remained clean and verified.
According to him, recent off-cycle governorship elections and legislative by-elections had served as practical tests of INEC’s logistics, security coordination and technological systems.
He said the use of election technology had significantly reduced vulnerabilities associated with earlier voting processes.
“The performance of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, for dual biometric verification and the real-time public display of Polling Unit result sheets, Form EC8A, on the INEC Result Viewing, IReV, portal continues to demonstrate high operational reliability, achieving upload rates above 98 per cent in recent off-cycle contests,” he said.
Amupitan said INEC’s operational roadmap for 2027 also included audits of the voter register, early deployment arrangements with transport unions to ensure polling units opened by 8:30 a.m., and improvements in assistive devices for persons with disabilities, pregnant women and elderly voters.
On security and electoral finance, the INEC chairman said the Commission was working with security agencies through the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security.
He added that INEC was also collaborating with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.
According to him, the collaboration was aimed at enforcing campaign finance rules, monitoring electoral offences and ensuring that persons found to have violated the law were prosecuted.
Amupitan also disclosed that the Commission would join presidential candidates later in the day for the signing of the National Peace Committee’s Peace Accord on Issue-Based Campaigns, which is intended to promote civility among political actors as campaigns begin.
Reaffirming INEC’s neutrality, he assured the international delegation that the Commission would remain transparent and cooperative throughout the electoral process.
“As an electoral management body, our sole mandate is to serve as an uncompromising, impartial umpire dedicated to delivering a free, fair, credible, transparent, and inclusive election that reflects the sovereign will of the Nigerian people,” Amupitan said.
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