2027: INEC considers full systems audit, mock presidential election

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has moved to see conducting a broad audit of each its electoral exertion systems, alongside a mock statesmanlike election.

This is arsenic portion of measures to boost preparations for the 2027 wide election.

The Chairman of the Commission, Professor Joash Amupitan, made this disclosure, connected Thursday, erstwhile received the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, connected a courtesy sojourn to the Commission’s office successful Abuja.

According to the INEC Chairman, the proposals, which were nether consideration, were informed by concerns arising from the 2023 wide election, particularly regarding the reliability of predetermination technology.

He said the Commission nether his ticker was looking astatine the anticipation of auditing each its systems up of the 2027 election, arsenic good arsenic conducting a mock statesmanlike election, to trial the readiness of its processes and exertion earlier the existent polls.

The INEC brag explained that the projected exercises were not primitively captured successful the Commission’s budget, stressing that the electoral assemblage would research ways to actualise them if required, fixed their imaginable worth ...