Tuesday, February 10, 2026 - APC Chieftain, Abiodun Ajiboye, says Nigeria is not ready for real time transmission of election result due to poor infrastructure.
Ajiboye said this while speaking on Arise TV on Monday,
February 9. In his words
“Transmitting
election results electronically is the function of manner of voting. If you
vote manually, and you collate results, how do you then transmit electronically
real-time? It’s just not possible. We can’t even afford it. Even if we wish to,
we can’t afford it,
Do the
telecom operators have that capability? Do we have enough electricity to
undertake that responsibility in Nigeria?
Is the
infrastructure of telecom companies sufficient enough to undertake such
exercise?
The last
election we had, the INEC server was attacked over a million times.
So what
they’re saying is that we should put the electoral process within the
vulnerability of hijackers, causing a lot of confusion. This is what I see them
pushing.”
He noted that manual processes remain central to elections.
“There are
manual parts of election. And what can happen, like it has always happened, is
you vote, and they count the votes there, the party agents append their
signatures on the paper, the paper can then be scanned and transmitted anyhow
you want,” he noted.
Ajiboye insisted that Nigeria is not yet capable of
electronic voting or real-time result transmission:
“A man is
only able to do what he is capable of. We have no capability to do electronic
voting or real-time transmission at this time.
America does
not even do real-time transmission. Go and check. We don’t even have telecom
provided for some rural communities. Some rural communities don’t even have
electricity. You’re trying to disenfranchise a lot of people by pushing for
what is not possible. Technologically, it is not possible. Stop stampeding the
Senate and National Assembly into getting into something very difficult, that
will put everybody in a mess at the end of the day.”
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