The Independent National Electoral Commission has blamed some of its registration officers for introducing suspected artificial intelligence-generated photographs and other irregularities into the preliminary register of voters.
INEC’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Dr Lawrence Bayode, said on Friday that the officers used their login details to insert questionable records into the commission’s database. He spoke during an interview on Arise Television.
Bayode said the irregularities were detected through the commission’s Automated Biometric Identification System, which was used to examine the registration records.
“We have registration officers on the field. And these registration officers, they have login details to log into the system. So what we have found is that some of these registration officers, not all of them now, some of them across the states nationwide, they’ve done different things to bring these irregularities onto the register,” he said.
He explained that while some photographs were generated using artificial intelligence, others resulted from poor registration procedures.
“Some of these pictures are AI-generated. Some of them not AI-generated, but very bad registration. And this thing got into the register by the registration officers because they have access to register people,” Bayode said.
The ICT director stated that the commission had identified the questionable records and established how some of the irregularities occurred, but could not determine the officers’ motives.
“When the ABIS was run on the system, we saw these people. We know what they did. We know how they did it. But honestly, I don’t know why,” he added.
Bayode said INEC had begun cleaning up the register before publishing its preliminary version and was working within the statutory 90-day period for the exercise.
The disclosure follows public concerns over suspicious photographs and other anomalies in the preliminary register uploaded to INEC’s website on October 26. Screenshots circulated on social media showed photographs suspected to be AI-generated attached to voter records in parts of Edo State. Other issues raised included alleged duplicate entries and complaints by some registered voters that their details were missing from the online register.
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