2027: Era of ballot box snatching, results manipulation over, INEC declares

By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan SAN, has declared that the era of ballot box snatching and manual manipulation of election results is gone, assuring Nigerians that current technological safeguards are robust enough to protect every vote cast in the 2027 general elections.
Amupitan made the declaration on Wednesday in Abuja when he received the Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, on a courtesy visit to INEC headquarters.
Both institutions used the occasion to deepen collaboration on voter education ahead of the 2027 polls.
The INEC chairman, who reca...