2023: BVAS Has Put An End To Manipulation Of Election Results – INEC

2023: BVAS Has Put An End To Manipulation Of Election Results – INEC

 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the electronic transmission of results cannot be manipulated due to the nature of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).

 

Prof. Mohammad Kuna, the Special Adviser to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Tuesday in Abuja, during a panel discussion at a two-day workshop organised by the National Peace Committee (NPC) headed by a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd) and The Kukah Centre.

 

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The event held on Tuesday in Abuja, has the theme, ‘The role and impact of Digital Technologies in facilitating Peaceful Elections in Nigeria’.

 

BVAS is an electronic device designed to read Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and authenticate voters.

 

“With the nature of BVAS, the uploaded polling units (PUs) results cannot be manipulated. The machine was not designed to edit the photographic results uploaded and sent to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV); and once sent cannot be recalled,” Kuna said.

 

While reacting to a viral message on the deployment of the commission’s ICT Director, Engr. Chidi Nwafor, to Enugu state as an Administrative Secretary, Kuna said INEC redeployment of staff before general elections in the country was a routine and not a new development.

 

He recalled that the commission redeployed before the 2011 and 2019 elections and any other times, insisting that it was a normal exercise for INEC.

 

“INEC has 37 offices across the federation and 774 local government offices across the local government areas in the country. It has over 16,000 staff spread across the country. The deployment and redeployment of staff is a normal exercise.

 

“INEC reserves the right to deploy its staff in places it thinks they can best perform the task given to them. Before this latest redeployment, there had been massive redeployment of over 500 staff members that didn’t raise any concern.

 

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“This is necessary to help the commission to deal with the issues coming out of the 2023 elections. Every general election, these redeployments are normal. We did it in 2010, 2018 and we have done that of 2022. I don’t think this is abnormal,” he said.

 

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