During an appearance on Arise TV on Monday, Dr. Bayode disclosed that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), introduced in 2021, is still operating on Android 10. Atiku pointed out that while the INEC official did not mention it, Android 10 reached its end of life in 2023 and no longer receives security updates or patches, raising significant security concerns. “Running a critical election platform like BVAS on an outdated operating system poses severe cyber and operational risks to our democracy,” Atiku said in a statement issued by his Media Office. Citing cybersecurity experts, Atiku said, “running critical national infrastructure on an end-of-life operating system creates a broad attack surface.” He therefore called for “an independent, comprehensive code and hardware audit of all BVAS devices to safeguard election integrity ahead of 2027.”