The Independent National Electoral Commission has condemned the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for expressing doubts over the credibility of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System and Results Viewing Portal, which will be deployed for the 2023 election.
Speaking at Chatham House, Tinubu said, “We are still building confidence in our democratic and voting system. INEC is yet to assure us that during this election that electronic transmission, the technology being used for accreditation and the total vote count, is reliable, dependable and assuring in our democratic process before we introduce a complicated element of ballot counting.”
In response to the APC Presidential hopeful’s remark and rumours that the commission had dumped the BVAS, Oyekanmi reiterated that the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has affirmed severally that there is no going back on the deployment of BVAS for the 2023 general election.
‘’Therefore, if at this moment in 2022, we still have a presidential candidate of one of the 18 registered political parties saying he needs assurances on the BVAS or he doesn’t know or appreciate its relevance to the 2023 general election, then something is terribly wrong somewhere,’’ he stated.
✍️ Gbadamosi TOHEEB
