AI photo controversy: 'Online voters’ register not final‘ - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has stated that the Preliminary Register of Voters published connected its website is not the last certified register, pursuing nationalist concerns and societal media reports of suspected AI-generated photographs successful the document.

In a property connection issued connected Wednesday, the Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, IVEC, Commissioner Mohammed Kudu Haruna, said the preliminary registry remains taxable to scrutiny, verification and correction earlier certification.

"It is important to emphasise that the preliminary registry is not the last certified register," Haruna said.

He explained that the Display, Claims and Objections workout is specifically intended to facilitate nationalist scrutiny, place inaccuracies and irregularities, and alteration due corrections earlier the registry is certified.

Commissioner Haruna clarified that the registry published online connected 26 October 2026 is the aforesaid preliminary registry that was physically displayed astatine Registration Areas, RAs, nationwide from 9 to 15 October 2026 arsenic portion of the exercise.

According to the statement, a fig of questionable registration records were identif...