Actor and politician, Emeka Ike, has said he is prepared to take action against Lere Olayinka, media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over the alleged exposure of his personal voter information.
Naijaonpoint reports that Ike contested for the AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency seat in the FCT on the platform of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) but lost.
Olayinka recently came under criticism after he posted details allegedly obtained from an administrative webpage of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
On Saturday, Olayinka claimed on 𝕏 that Ike was previously registered as a voter in Imo State before transferring his registration to the FCT on May 15.
He attached screenshots to …, which many Nigerians believed contained information from INEC’s administrative login portal.
The details reportedly included Ike’s application number, registration centre, Voter Identification Number, profile picture, name and date of application.
Reacting on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Tuesday, Ike described the action as shocking and unacceptable.
He said, “It’s quite shocking, extreme, and it is the height of political rascality for a government officer to access a citizen’s information from the INEC cyber.
“It tells you a lot, shows how much impunity we have flying around there and people have access to the things they shouldn’t be having access to, and that’s quite deplorable, and I see that as a huge insult and slap on every political party and every Nigerian.
“He is telling every Nigerian that whoever you are, I can pull your information from anywhere and I can do what I want and that rascality needs to be stopped.”
The actor said he was ready to challenge Olayinka for allegedly exposing his private details.
Ike said, “Actions are ready, I’m ready to take him on.
“He has no right to exploit my privacy and insult Nigerians the way he did. If he has been doing it in the past, this should be the last time he does it.”
Ike also explained why he chose to contest for the House of Representatives seat in Abuja instead of his home state.
He said, “I actually wanted to run in my state, but a couple of people came to me; it was like a clarion call. People came to me and told me, ‘sir, you need to do this now, we need you in Abuja.
“And I’m like, you know, I’m already trying to run in my state, but they insisted, and the surge was high, and I considered it, seeing the relevant issues they brought on board, and I said, okay, fine, let’s see how we can build Abuja.
“A municipal area needs to be properly guarded and looked into, so I decided to shift to Abuja.”
