AI as election bogey, by Okoh Aihe

As he walked across the stage to address the gathering, the young MC joked on Monday morning that Prof. Joash Amupitan is one man nobody would really want to envy in Nigeria today. This was beyond a joke, which the INEC Chairman soaked in with some equanimity. In less than three months, his agency, which has struggled with a bout of image concerns, would be organizing some major elections which may give him a redeeming opportunity to change the calculus, to convince Nigerians that he can write a good story from a previously bad plot. It was the reason Amupitan was at the Continental Hotel in Abuja. Offered a platform at the National Summit on Electoral Information Integrity, jointly organ...