By Ochogwu Sunday Former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has expressed concern over an alarm raised by the Independent National...
By Ochogwu Sunday
Former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has expressed
concern over an alarm raised by the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, alleging that some foreign hackers were attempting to gain access to its
database.
DAILY POST earlier reported that the INEC Chairman,
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had on January 27, while speaking at the annual
national conference of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents,
NAJUC, said some foreigners were attempting to hack the database.
Yakubu, who was represented by the deputy director of ICT,
Dr Lawrence Bayode, at the event, explained that the attacks are from different
parts of the world, including France.
Worried about the development, Shehu Sani, in a tweet on his
official handle on Friday, called for caution, stating that the coming
elections would be the first time the country would depend heavily on
technology for polls.
He expressed hope that the issue of hacking would be
resolved before the February and March elections.
He wrote, “This election is Nigeria’s first that will be
heavily dependent on technology in voting and transmission of result.
“We hope that the alarm raised by the electoral commission
about “foreign hackers” has been squarely addressed”.
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