The African Democratic Congress (ADC) accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of publishing “statistically unlikely” figures of the first week of its continuous exercise of voting registration (CVR), specifically questioning how the state of OSun registered more records of newer voters in a single week than in the previous four years.
In a statement published on Thursday, signed by its Secretary of National Advertising, Mallam Balaji Abdullahi, the ADC raised an alarm on the southwest figures, which as an extraordinary 67 percent of all pre -registration throughout the country represents.
According to the INEC report, the state of OSun only registered 393,269 new pre -regulations in just seven days. The ADC stressed that this figure far exceeds 275,815 new voters registered in the State between 2019 and 2023, a period that covers four years.
“To put this in context, OSun has now supposedly registered more people in seven days of what he managed to do in a full four -year electoral cycle,” reads the statement.
“Even at its highest point of political mobilization in 2022, Osun has never produced more than 823,124 votes cast in the governor’s elections. Now, by some miracle, almost 20 percent of all eligible adults in the state have rushed to register. This is not only unusual, it is statistically inappropriate.”
The party also pointed out the tireless disparity between different geopolitical areas. The analysis of the ADC data shows that, although the southwest registered 848,359 pre -registration, the entire southeast represented only 1.998.
The ADC pointed out that three states, Osun, Lagos and Ogun, increased 54.2 percent of all records in Nigeria, while five combined states, Ebonyi, Imo, Enugu, Abia and Adamawa, reminded a miserable 4.153, which represents only 0.2 percent of the national total.
The ADC warned that the “fantastic figures” suggest a “technical failure ‘” in the INEC system or a “more worrying possibility of deliberate data manipulation.” The party emphasized that the registration of voters is the basis of the electoral process and that any commitment would undermine the integrity of future elections.
To address the concerns, the ADC asked INEC to urgently perform a complete forensic audit of the first week pre -registration data. He also demanded that the electoral body reveal a state breakdown by state of physical and online records, as well as server records, bandwidth distribution and regional access reports for the registration portal.
The ADC urged all political parties of the opposition to join when demanding an explanation of the INEC and appealed to electoral monitoring groups, the verification organizations of facts and the international community, including the UN, AU and the CEDEA, to analyze the figures.
“The credibility of our democracy cannot be left to chance,” the statement concluded.
“The silence in the face of these anomalies would be equivalent to complicity. History has shown that when questions about the registration of voters are unanswered, the consequences go beyond politics; they touch national stability itself.”
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