BY OUR CORRESPONDENT – Huge disappointment will confront notorious elections manipulators and riggers next year as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) insists only Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will be deployed for the 2023 general elections.
The INEC Resident Commissioner in Jigawa State, Mahmud Isa, dropped the hints while amplifying the Commission’s resolve to stop using the largely defective card readers in conducting future polls.
Briefing newsmen on the 2023 election campaign guidelines in his office, Isa said in shunning for good the use of card readers, the Electoral umpire would not compromise using BVAS which is more effective to ensure free, fair, and credible elections in the country.
He explained that; “The BVAS technology will make the election credible more than what was recorded in the past using card readers”, adding; “By adopting this new technology, all the lapses encountered in the past would be over, the issue of multiple vote, and the use of someone’s voters card is over”..
Isa further said that the INEC has already commenced the distributing the new technology to all its state offices.
This is as he assured that the Commission would soon embark on rigorous training of personnel on how to use the new technology after the planned recruitment of ad-hoc staff nationwide.
