Our reporter| The Independent National Electoral Commission has reassured Nigerians that there is no plan to discard the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the electronic transmission of results.
INEC Chairman, Prof, Mahmood Yakubu gave the assurance on Tuesday while addressing participants in Abuja at a training of master trainers on technologies for 2023 general elections.
According to him, the commission is determined to deploy the BVAS technology for the conduct of a free, fair, credible, and transparent election.
The INEC boss also appealed to political parties and their candidates to shun politics of violence.
The INEC Chairman’s reassurances came amid reports of plans to distort the use of technology for the 2023 general elections.
A coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) last Wednesday alleged that there is a plot to stop electronic transmission of results of the 2023 general election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The group further alleged that plans were being hatched to pressure the electoral Commission to deactivate Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) from the server including stirring a possible change in leadership of INEC.
CUPP spokesman, Ugo Ikenga Ugochinyere, who made the disclosure at a press conference in Abuja, alleged that “there was immense pressure on the leadership of INEC to deactivate the BIVAS from the server, which pressure has been resisted by INEC hence the plot by the ruling party’s agents led by some governors to commence the plot to cause a leadership change in the electoral management body.
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