A presidential candidate in the July 16 2022 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) elections, Joe-Kyari Gadzama, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has demanded that the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA) allows immediate audit of the election and sever.
ASHENEWS recalls that Gadzama came second to the winner, Yakubu Maikyau, also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
However, Gadzama in a statement on Wednesday, noted that in the pre-election, his agent, Andrew Madaki tested the vulnerability of the website, electionbuddy.com which was used for the conduct of the NBA National polls but found that it was susceptible to manipulation.
“The report which is attached to this press release shows that the website was susceptible to manipulation. Thereafter my agent and other agents present raised some of these concerns during the press conference conducted by the ECNBA on the eve of the election,” he said.
According to him, during the conduct of the election, his agent discovered numerous irregularities and expressed same to the ECNBA.
He particularly noted that there were frequent timeouts on the site; lack of access to the backend of the server, and lack of graphical representation of the results.
Gadzama added that when the ECNBA was requested to audit the election, it promised to do so immediately.
He stressed that “auditing the election will permit independent parties and agents to discover if there were any technical interferences to usurp the will of the electorate.
“On the whole, and in view of the above facts and attached documents, it is clear that the technology adopted was highly vulnerable and most susceptible to electronic fraud, rigging, and pre-programming of votes. I hereby call upon the ECNBA to allow an immediate audit of the election and server,” the statement reads.
