{"id":83116,"date":"2026-03-02T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83116"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:57:25","slug":"do-not-trust-inec-technology-deployment-sam-amadi-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/03\/02\/do-not-trust-inec-technology-deployment-sam-amadi-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Trust INEC Technology Deployment, Sam Amadi Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr Sam Amadi, has urged Nigerians not to place confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s deployment of technology.<\/p>\n<p>Amadi spoke at the Citizens Town Hall Meeting on Electoral Act 2026 in Abuja, where he called for a bipartisan audit commission to review INEC\u2019s technological systems. He said controversies surrounding the 2023 general elections remain unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe finished the 2023 election with so many allegations and issues,\u201d he said, criticising the National Assembly for failing to conduct a comprehensive public hearing. He noted that key officials were not put on oath to explain what transpired.<\/p>\n<p>Amadi insisted that electoral accountability is vital to restoring public trust, warning that without an independent audit of INEC\u2019s technological infrastructure, confidence in the electoral process will remain fragile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr Sam Amadi, has urged Nigerians not to place confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s deployment of technology. Amadi spoke at the Citizens Town Hall Meeting on Electoral Act 2026 in Abuja, where he called for a bipartisan audit commission to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-83116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83118,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83116\/revisions\/83118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}