THE DEPLOYMENT OF ICT INFRASTRUCTURES IN THE NIGERIA 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS: THE CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

The Nigeria 2023 general elections as conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) witnessed an improved deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures majorly for voters’ verification/identification, collation and upload of election results that prevented rigging, particularly over voting.  However, despite the deployment of the ICT infrastructures, the collation and upload of election results were characterized with a lot of controversies opined to have marred the credibility of the electioneering process as indicated in the results of an online survey conducted via Google form.  It is in view of this that this study x-rayed the major challenges of the deployment of ICT infrastructures in the Nigeria 2023 general elections and proffer solutions to harness the prospects of deployment of ICT infrastructures in the future general elections.