Idris Wada Clamours For E-Voting To Enhance Electoral Process

Former Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State has called for adoption of electronic voting system with computerised data base to curb the nation’s flaws in electioneering processes, costs and security challenges.

Wada, who made the call while addressing journalists after casting his vote at Odu Ward 4 Unit 001 yesterday in Ogboyaga, said most of the nation’s electioneering challenges would be a thing of the past with electronic voting put in place.

He said that the electoral process needed to be organised in a way that there would be minimal human interface.

Wada said unless the unhealthy development of people imposing themselves on the people as leaders and disallow a free and fair process stopped, the country would not improve and there would be no development.

He condemned the wanton destruction of people’s property over election, saying it was not fair to burn the house of a citizen who had laboured all his life to build “simply because you don’t want him to come out and vote.”