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2027 Election: Atiku raises concern over outdated BVAS

The Osun State mock-accreditation failures of August 1, 2026 and Monday's revelation by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Director of ICT, Dr Lawrence Bayode, has exposed the inadequacies of the BVAS (Bimodal Voter Accreditation System), a critical asset in the conduct of elections in Nigeria.

Speaking on Arise TV on Monday, Bayode said that BVAS, which was first introduced into our elections in 2021, is currently running on Android version 10.

What the INEC ICT Director did not say, however, is that the Android version 10 is outdated as it reached end of life in 2023, meaning that it is no longer getting updates or security patches.

The ADC Presidential candidate said that running an election technology platform like BVAS on an outdated operating system poses severe cyber and operational risks.

He wonders why INEC with its humongous budget cannot update the BVAS software long before the 2027 general elections or even before the series of off season elections like the Osun State governorship election during which the updated version would have been test run.

Atiku said that the nonchalant attitude of handling the BVAS issue is suspicious and a deliberate attempt to subvert the integrity of the country's elections.

According to him, this vulnerability could allow criminal elements or hackers to bypass the BVAS application entirely, gain root access to the device file system, and potentially alter cached voter logs or polling unit result files before they are transmitted.

He noted that since BVAS machines must necessarily transmit polling unit results over weak public telecommunication networks to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal, outdated cryptographic foundations elevate the risk of Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks, where sophisticated actors could intercept, block, or manipulate data packets over the air.

The former Vice President pointed out that because BVAS handles both fingerprint and facial recognition, an outdated biometric framework (such as INEC is still using), has the potential of "reducing the system's accuracy and resilience against spoofing methods such as fingerprint and photo bypasses."

He expressed deep concern that "bugs or memory leaks within legacy system frameworks can cause the app to crash during peak voting hours —leading to "technical glitches" and delayed accreditations as have been witnessed in the past."

He supported the position of cybersecurity expnoerts that "running critical national infrastructure on an end-of-life operating system creates a broad attack surface. To safeguard election integrity, it is vital to perform an independent, comprehensive code and hardware audit of the BVAS devices."

Signed:
Atiku Media Office
Abuja
11 August 2026.

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Nawa Nlfpmod. BVAS come be 3310.

ogododo:
Nawa Nlfpmod. BVAS come be 3310.

Abubakar Atiku, The Turaki Wailer Himself.

INEC has started giving excuses already, this time around "Outdated BVAS" last election was "Glitches"
Then what is the use of over ₦800 billon budgeted for INEC and they are still requesting more

favor914:
Abubakar Atiku, The Turaki Wailer Himself.

Everything no be Wailing Wailers.

How can INEC still be using an outdated Android 10 version on its BVAS devices, an OS that reached end-of-life in 2023,
while preparing to use it for the 2027 election?

With all the budgets, and almost N1 trillion at that, na Android 10 INEC won still dey use?

Try use your brain na.

Ofunaofu:
Everything no be Wailing Wailers.

How can INEC still be using an outdated Android 10 version on its BVAS devices, an OS that reached end-of-life in 2023,
while preparing to use it for the 2027 election?

With all the budgets, and almost N1 trillion at that, na Android 10 INEC won still dey use?

Try use your brain na.

He should go & contest the mid term election in America, is it my fault that u are both Nigerians .

Is a money something. Let them budget 28billion for it or if that is not enough me them kuku budget 59billion

Very soon, demented agulu portable will join his boss to raise alarm too

favor914:
He should go & contest the mid term election in America, is it my fault that u are both Nigerians .

Sorry bro, I didn’t know you were one of these 😂

Atiku you go complain tire o

Just dey explain dey go.

You go back come back in the year 2050 to try again

INEC is a joke seriously, cause tell me why with all that budget money you can't run an efficient organization.

I don't blame them sha. They are the ones spoiling the country.

What does Atiku know about operating system?. The write-up was being pushed out as if he was the one that composed it. INEC has its own ICT expert and I definitely know they will not be dull to know when necessary upgrades are required for the BVAS system, however the claim and fear of Atiku is acknowledged and INEC should look into this.

Nigerians are more concerned about outdated Atiku contesting 2027 presidential election 🙄

badoh:
What does Atiku know about operating system?. The write-up was being pushed out as if he was the one that composed it. INEC has its own ICT expert and I definitely know they will not be dull to know when necessary upgrades are required for the BVAS system, however the claim and fear of Atiku is acknowledged and INEC should look into this.

You as a person can u use a phone with android 10 is?

Read the comments up there carefully. Only the supporters of evil and corruption back INEC on this and castigate Atiku. Naturally, these same people are Tinubu’s supporters.

Elusive001:
Read the comments up there carefully. Only the supporters of evil and corruption back INEC on this and castigate Atiku. Naturally, these same people are Tinubu’s supporters.

funny thing is most of them are poor and suffering but because tinubu is yoruba they will keep supporting him

favor914:
Abubakar Atiku, The Turaki Wailer Himself.

Everything is not politics bro.

ogododo:
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Some Android still run on Android 7, 8 and that doesn't make them unable to do their basic duties.

ogododo:
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A device running on Android 10 has every capacity to carry out it's basic duties. INEC must not try Nigerians. We are ready to take it to any length to ensure that our democracy is not twarted by few individuals. INEC should just know this.

Seems you guys are cursed with sound reasoning. Weldone!!!

badoh:
What does Atiku know about operating system?. The write-up was being pushed out as if he was the one that composed it. INEC has its own ICT expert and I definitely know they will not be dull to know when necessary upgrades are required for the BVAS system, however the claim and fear of Atiku is acknowledged and INEC should look into this.