Over 1 Trillion Naira budget allocation for INEC and over 200 Billion Naira of that money is meant for digital infrastructure, yet, INEC’s accreditation devices runs on an outdated Android 10 system Google abandoned years ago. Even their website runs on cheap security.
Earlier today I read Martins Uwakwe's post and dug deeper, and what's going on is alarming.
What started as one flagged link has turned into a documented mess. Martins, an AI governance researcher, found roughly 28 casino and gambling articles published directly on INEC's official website, inecnigeria. org, not adverts, not outbound links, actual pages hosted on INEC's own domain. Content ranged from "instant casino France" promotions to Czech-language gambling explainers, dressed up as normal blog articles.
But there’s something bigger that should worry every Nigerian more than the casino spam itself: most of these pages were published under the WordPress author name "Ajuma Achor." That name traces back to someone who once worked at Interra Networks, the tech vendor that has handled contact-centre and web services for INEC. Her own LinkedIn suggests she left that company years ago. Which means one of two things is true: either an old, unmonitored publishing account has been sitting open and exploitable on INEC's website for who knows how long, or someone who still has access is actively using it, possibly for paid SEO placements. Both possibilities are frightening.
A credential that can quietly publish dozens of gambling pages is a credential that could, in principle, publish a fake results announcement on election night.
And it's not just the main site. voters.inecnigeria. org, a subdomain that should be strictly about voter information was also compromised, at one point serving Russian-language content before it too went down.
It gets worse when you zoom out. This discovery came just weeks after INEC's own ICT director publicly confirmed that the Commission's core accreditation devices, the machines that verify voters at polling units are still running on Android 10, an operating system Google stopped actively supporting years ago.
So we are not just talking about a hacked blog. We are talking about an election body whose public website has an open backdoor and whose accreditation hardware runs on outdated, harder-to-patch software, all inside the same window of time, 142 days before the 2027 general elections.
Since this information has been trending since today, INEC is predictably trying to clean up. Which means, they don’t even have a team that monitors what’s going on there. 
The "clean-up" so far has been embarrassingly patchy.
The original casino article link now returns an Error 404 but it's archived on the Wayback Machine, so the evidence isn't going anywhere.
Instead of properly removing the compromised pages, several of them have simply been stripped down to blank "Uncategorised" headers. The infected pages are still live, just gutted, which tells you this is a rushed patch job, not a real security response.
No public statement yet from INEC on how the breach happened, how long it's been going on, or whether anything beyond public web pages was touched.
But beyond INEC. A July report on an Indonesian-linked gambling syndicate found similar casino content quietly planted across roughly 20 government websites in 16 African countries - Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa and more.
On Nigeria's Federal High Court website, researchers found an even sneakier version: the site looks completely normal to a regular visitor, but if you land on it from a gambling-related Google search, it serves you a casino page instead. And this isn't old news.
I checked the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service website myself just now, and a casino article is still live on it as I write this post.
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Assuming without conceding, you have the right to make such orders (as accuser, prosecutor, judge, and executioner that you are), was it @PeterObi that drove the vehicle? Can you transfer liability to him, the passenger?
PETER OBI MUST APOLOGISE TO AIRPORT STAFF AND PAY THE FINE FOR WRONG PARKING
As the Minister of Aviation, I felt a moral duty to investigate and authenticate the claim made by opposition candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, a few days ago that the tyres of his car were ‘unjustly’ clamped at the airport, suggesting a ‘persecution agenda’ against him by the Federal Government. Politics aside, every Nigerian is entitled to fair treatment under the law.
I therefore instituted an internal inquiry over the issue.
Luckily enough, the entire Abuja airport is covered by CCTV cameras, real-time, 24/7. But apparently, this fact was unknown to Mr. Peter Obi. Otherwise, perhaps he would have been more circumspect before rushing to the media to cry ‘persecution’.
From the recordings, these are the facts:
1. On Saturday, July 4th, 2026, Mr. Obi arrived at the domestic wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at exactly 20:28 pm, driven by a Policeman. He alighted with two other occupants and went into the terminal building.
2. The Police driver then parked the vehicle, almost blocking the entrance and came out himself and went into the terminal building too. The airport rule is that, apart from the fact that it is a drop-off zone, a driver must remain behind the wheels of the vehicle for it to be tolerated for some time within that zone. Still the vehicle tyres were not clamped.
3. The Policeman came back to the vehicle at about 20:32pm and collected something from the vehicle and went back into the building again, leaving the vehicle unattended to.
4. At this point, the dutiful airport security staff came over and clamped the tyres of the car. In doing this, contrary to the claims by Peter Obi, nobody was inside the car and so nobody knew whether it was his car (not that it should matter, anyway).
5. When the Policeman returned again and discovered the tyres were clamped, he was directed to an office and upon getting there, he called Mr. Peter Obi on his phone and gave the phone to the manager. Mr. Peter Obi then introduced himself and spoke with the manager, peddled his ‘influence’ and requested for the release of the vehicle. His vehicle was then released without him paying the necessary fine.
6. It is important to note that the time the vehicle was parked unattended to in that prohibited zone was about 30 minutes, which constitutes a security risk at an airport by global best practices.
What has emerged from this is a clear case of an opposition candidate trying to whip up unnecessary sentiments for a wrong he committed with his driver. The excuse which Mr. Peter Obi gave that there were other offenders too on that day (which is completely false) cannot be an excuse for an individual aspiring to be President of Nigeria. He must live above board.
This is a matter that was not even mentioned at all by the airport authorities and had been put to rest. But ever determined to milk any situation to score cheap political points, Mr. Peter Obi decided to go on air to render a false narrative.
Therefore, he must also face the consequences of his actions. (I have attached the CCTV footages to this statement for the public to clearly see what transpired.)
In the circumstances, consistent with the principle of equality before the law, as Minister of Aviation, I make the following demands on Mr. Peter Obi:
1. That he tenders an unreserved, public apology to those hardworking, ordinary Nigerian workers at the airport, just doing their jobs dutifully and whom he sought to blackmail as his ‘persecutors’.
2. That Mr. Peter Obi voluntarily goes back to the airport and pay the appropriate fine of N25,000 for wrongful parking at the airport for which he used ‘influence peddling’ to bully his way out on that day. He cannot be bigger than the law.
If these demands are not met within one week, I will be giving the necessary directives to the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to take the next steps against him.
@Dannymasterp Mr Bayo can sue him for calling him stupid. As for the doctored video, there is nothing to debunk. Common sense should have been applied by the accusers.
"We have zoned the party's presidential candidature to the south, no mincing words". Buba Galadima.
Something ADC refused to do because it was Atiku's vehicle.
@DanielRegha Parties are simply vehicles to contest elections in Nigeria. There are no core differences in ideology, even PO himself has admitted this. It's just a game, and you need to outwit your opponent.
@blckseun This guy is BAT supporter, period! I listened to his analysis during the last elections about the states BAT would win. He was soo wrong. He is also wrong this time.
This release by @inecnigeria followed a meeting involving senior leaders of the Commission, & @NGRPresident, @CourtOfAppealNG, @FederalHigh in the last 60 hours.
I have it on the most impeccable authority that there is a pre-signed resignation letter by Chairman Amupitan. It was a pre-condition for his appointment. Ultimately, that had to be called in aid by those who persuaded him to issue this release. The threat of releasing it did the magic.
It shd be evident to a professor of law & #SAN that is not the business of @inecnigeria to interpret the decision of the Court of Appeal. If they had any doubt, an #INEC governed by good faith shd have gone back to the Court of Appeal to secure an interpretation of the decision.
But that is not where we are now. The country stares down a barrel & only those willing to enable that, make peace with it, or dare it will be able to sniff the stakes in #NigeriaDecides2027.
As for Joash Amupitan....!!
@afrisagacity There won't be any opportunity for that kind of stunt. It is unlikely ADC will do any direct primaries. Their candidate will emerge by consensus.