2027: Obidient Movement rejects INEC’s planned AI use in results collation

The Obidient Movement has rejected the planned deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the collation of results for the 2027 general elections, warning that Nigerians would not accept what it described as another attempt to “manufacture” election results.
It said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should abandon the plan, particularly as the commission had admitted that its AI governance framework was yet to be finalised.
In a statement issued yesterday by its media and communications directorate and signed by Onyeka Dike, the movement described the proposed use of AI at the results collation stage as “reckless and unacceptable”, arguing that Nigerians should n...