By Chinaza Osigwe
A civic-tech organisation, Citizen Monitors, has unveiled a web-based election monitoring tool designed to enable voters to record, verify, and view election activities in real time ahead of the November 8, 2025 Anambra governorship election.In a statement released on Monday, the group said the platform seeks to make election day “clear, not chaotic,” by transforming voters into active participants who document events at polling units.According to the organisation, the web application allows users to upload photos or videos of result sheets and election incidents tagged to their respective polling units.
Each report is automatically time-stamped, geo-tagged, and peer-reviewed by other users before being published on a public dashboard.The group’s co-founder, Adeshope Haastrup, said the innovation aims to promote electoral transparency. “With this app, Anambra can protect its polling units with facts, not noise,” he stated.Similarly, the organisation’s spokesperson, Olajumoke Alawode-James, noted that the tool encourages citizens to “see it, record it, and verify it,” stressing that collective participation would ensure a credible poll.Meanwhile, Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has accused some politicians of lobbying officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the forthcoming election.“These politicians sleeping in the INEC office are trying to get the electoral umpire to manipulate the results of next month’s poll,” Soludo alleged during a panel discussion in Abuja themed Innovation in Electoral Technology 2015–2025.He urged political actors to embrace integrity in the electoral process, describing technological improvements in Nigeria’s elections as a significant step forward from previous years.
