Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday reaffirmed Nigerians that there is no plan to discard the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the electronic transmission of results.
Addressing participants in Abuja at a training of master trainers on technologies for 2023 general elections, INEC Chairman, Prof, Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission is determined to deploy the BVAS technology for the conduct of a free, fair, credible and transparent election.
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Prof. Yakubu 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.
He said;
Over the last two years, the commission has increased the deployment of technology in the elections in Nigeria.
Systems and portals have been designed and developed to cater for different electoral activities ranging from voter registration and accreditation, result transmission from the polling units, the nomination of candidates by political parties to the accreditation of polling agents, observers and journalists for election.
Of these innovations, most Nigerians are more familiar with the BVAS which doubles as a device for accreditation as well as the upload of the Polling Unit level result sheets to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal in real-time on election day.
