INEC has submitted a ₦873.78 billion budget to run the 2027 elections, nearly three times the ₦313 billion released for 2023. The Commission says the increase reflects the scale of the exercise. What it doesn't reflect: the Electoral Act governing those elections is still being finalised, the result transmission clause is still contested, and the Senate just spent two weeks explaining why Nigeria's infrastructure is too broken to guarantee transparent voting. ₦874 billion for an election Nigeria cannot yet guarantee will be counted honestly.