Nigerian lawyer Liborous Oshoma has alleged that the FCT Minister aide Lere Olayinka backend access to actor Emeka Ike’s personal details on the INEC database has exposed every registered Nigerian voter to a possible identity theft and electoral manipulation.
Speaking on Arise TV, Oshoma said, “What Lere Olayinka has done means that we are all exposed, our information is out there. Only God knows how many people have accessed that information. If tomorrow somebody decides to hack into my bank data using the NIN and all that information, or clone my identity card because my biometric is there with INEC and my facial data is there. All these things are possible with this kind of breach and that is how frightening it is.”
Oshoma dismissed INEC’s reassurance that the system had not been hacked, arguing that what happened was actually worse than a conventional hack because the data was willingly handed to an individual rather than stolen through a technical intrusion.
He warned that the real danger lies not just in what Olayinka did publicly, but in what others with the same level of access may be quietly doing with the information.
