By Felicia Odom 2.6.2026
Nollywood actor Emeka Ike said he is considering suing Lere Olayinka for leaking his personal information from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal.
Mr. Olayinka a media aide to the Federal Capital Territory minister Nyesom Wike, during a dispute with Emeka Ike on X social media platform claimed that the actor was originally a voter registered in Imo State before transferring his registration to the Federal Capital Territory.
“Emeka Ike was a registered voter in Imo State. He only transferred his INEC Registration to the FCT on May 15, 2026,” Olayinka wrote.
He also questioned the actor’s decision to contest in Abuja and attached screenshots that appeared to contain details from an INEC administrative page.
The images reportedly showed information including Ike’s application number, registration centre, Voter Identification Number, photograph and other personal details.
“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,” Emeka Ike who contested for the House of Representatives seat for the AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency under the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) said.
“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.
“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.”
Meanwhile the INEC said it has opened investigations into the alleged unauthorised leakage of Emeka Ike’s voter information.
“The attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission has been drawn to allegations currently circulating on social media and in some sections of the media regarding the alleged unauthorised access to the Commission’s Continuous Voter Registration database and the subsequent publication of information on a candidate in the recent primaries of a political party in the Federal Capital Territory.
“The Commission takes this allegation seriously and has immediately commenced a thorough investigation to establish the facts surrounding the incident,” INEC national commissioner and information and voter education committee chairman Mohammed Kudu Haruna said in a statement.
He added the Department of State Services (DSS) had begun an independent investigation into the matter.