VerumIntegrity Foundation
About

A record that cannot sit behind one door

Verum Integrity Foundation is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit Nigerian foundation. It builds public-interest tools that let citizens, journalists and courts check election results against the sheets they come from.

Why it exists

In February 2023, verification of Africa's largest election rested on a single channel.

INEC's IReV portal failed to upload presidential polling-unit results on time on election night. The delay fed a long and bitter dispute about the outcome.

The evidence needed for independent checking already exists. Every one of Nigeria's 176,846 polling units produces a signed Form EC8A result sheet, and INEC publishes images of them. The gap is capacity. Checking that many sheets has taken weeks, so most disputes are argued from samples, anecdote or partisan claims.

Verum exists to close that gap, openly and lawfully.

What we check

Three problems that usually go unproven.

01.

On the sheet

Arithmetic errors and alterations on the result sheet itself.

02.

Between copies

Differences between the sheet a citizen photographed at the polling unit and the sheet uploaded to IReV.

03.

At collation

Drift between polling-unit sheets and the totals announced at ward, LGA and state collation.

Registered objects

What the foundation is registered to do.

  • 01Public-interest digital toolsTools that improve access to information.
  • 02Civic educationHelping citizens understand how results are produced and how they can be checked.
  • 03Evidence-based public educationStatistical analysis and publications.
Check us

Every claim here can be checked.

Legal name
The Incorporated Trustees of Verum Integrity Foundation
Registration
CAC, Incorporated Trustees, IT No. 9875145
Registered
21 September 2026
Tax ID
2623033154003
Based in
Ibadan, Oyo State
Certificate
Available to funders on request

Who governs the foundation

Our programme is Ballot Watch NG.

See the programme