Few days after the national chairman of his ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu questioned the planned deployment of the Biometric Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, for next year’s general election, presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said the electoral umpire is yet to assure Nigerians of the fidelity of the system.


The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had since 2011 been introducing technological innovations to enhance the electoral process.

It introduced BVAS and the INEC Results Viewing Portal IReV for some off-season elections and is set to deploy both innovations for the general election.

There had been allegations that some members of the political class were uncomfortable with the development.

However, speaking on Monday at a Chatham House session in London, Tinubu said; “We are still building confidence in our democratic and voting system. INEC is still yet to assure us 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.”


At a meeting with the pre-election delegation of the Commonwealth Election Observation Mission last month in Abuja, Senator Adamu said; “First, I was privileged to serve as a Senator. Our concern is how ready are we to deploy some of these technologies as regards transmission because we are taking a major step in transmitting election results in real-time?

“To transmit results, every part of the nation Nigeria, I am not sure that the network covers it. I know that even in parts of Abuja, there is no network and we have from now till February when in substantial parts of the country there is no electricity.

“INEC must assure us 100 percent that as and when due in transmitting results, they are ready because they spoke about recharging batteries but we had in previous elections when it said it could not recharge”.

At the same meeting, the National Organizing Secretary of the party, Ambassador Suleiman Argungu also said the new technology may not work in his home state, Kebbi.

He said; “As a rider to what the national chairman just said about INEC transmitting results directly during the coming election, apart from the issue of electricity that is unstable, a lot of the villages and communities bordering other countries, for instance, my state Kebbi that is bordering two nations during the previous elections the network of Nigeria for all the networks, Glo, MTN, Airtel you can’t get them. If you want to get them you have to use the number of the other countries to reach them. So, during election, I don’t see how the transmission of results will work. I see it coming”.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/12/bvas-inec-yet-to-assure-us-of-its-capacity-to-deliver-tinubu/

Same BVAS that were deployed in the Anambra and Osun gubernatorial elections? You must be mad!

Opportunist

Tinubu is scared of the repeat of what happened in Osun State. How come it's the ruling party that is worried?

Racoon:
Same BVAS that were deployed in the Anambra and Osun gubernatorial elections? You must be mad!

Osun do Tinubu strong thing.


Asiwaju Tinubu has confirmed to Nigerians and the world that he has no business contesting the 2023 Presidential election; that he is grossly incompetent, completely unprepared for leadership and intends to transfer the onerous task of leading our nation to proxies and a cabal that did not seek votes from Nigerians.

Nlpfmod, Tinubu don dey see failure.

slivertongue:


Osun do Tinubu strong thing.


Asiwaju Tinubu has confirmed to Nigerians and the world that he has no business contesting the 2023 Presidential election; that he is grossly incompetent, completely unprepared for leadership and intends to transfer the onerous task of leading our nation to proxies and a cabal that did not seek votes from Nigerians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6COWi65hU

I can't just understand why people seem trying to twist obvious facts. Tinubu was responding to questions about diaspora voting. Are we ripe for diaspora voting?, can BVAS as at today be readily efficient for diaspora voting without being complicated?.. absolutely not. Tinubu, however said, diaspora voters will have to be captured in the future as much as they contribute to the economy.

slivertongue:


Osun do Tinubu strong thing.


Asiwaju Tinubu has confirmed to Nigerians and the world that he has no business contesting the 2023 Presidential election; that he is grossly incompetent, completely unprepared for leadership and intends to transfer the onerous task of leading our nation to proxies and a cabal that did not seek votes from Nigerians.

The presidency is not actually one person dictating everything. There's something called the cabinet, a group of people working with the president to achieve his goals.
His speech was lucid and strong on policy ideas. Why are you folks no talking about that. No president works alone, even the statistics candidate if elected will have to rely on others to provide him with the statistics.

Just decided to act dumped today, so far there's no need commenting.

Emilokan.
Osun State comes to mind

BVAS is here to stay.

Na lie.

JAGABAN

Thortp:
Emilokan.
Osun State comes to mind

where his party got almost 350k votes and won ekiti state

Labour party struggle to get 1k votes

BVAS is here to stay Nwanne

Primus123:
BVAS was used at the Osun state election and everything went fine, so which other assurance does APC need?

INEC is the body in charge of election and they said they're ready for the election so why's APC panicking?




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Chinedu

BVAS gave APC almost 350k votes in Osun coming after PDP while BVAS gave APC victory in ekiti state

Labour party struggle to get 1k votes in those two state despite the presence of Naanu

TINUBU made reference to diaspora voting, claiming INEC hasn't assured that BVAS can be efficient enough to capture the diasporans

Tinubu is eternally afraid

NigeriaIsGreat:
Chinedu

BVAS gave APC almost 350k votes in Osun coming after PDP while BVAS gave APC victory in ekiti state

Labour party struggle to get 1k votes in those two state despite the presence of Naanu

TINUBU made reference to diaspora voting, claiming INEC hasn't assured that BVAS can be efficient enough to capture the diasporans

So you are comparing a structureless party to an established one? Joke is on you bro

Somebody is jittery.

E go do u urchins and children of falling demons like film.

Meanwhile this is from Benue state.

Tinubu come out straight with the right words

Baba Dey wait assurance from inec to rig election for am

But you see this 2023 ehn.. u will experience Nigerians in a very new and unique dimension

No business as usual anymore.

BlazinGlory40:


So you are comparing a structureless party to an established one? Joke is on you bro

Hahahahaha

If you aren't daft like Naanu you should know that Obi and his inconsequential running mate will not come distant third in the coming election

Dem wan dabaru dis one again.

Political parties and their candidates in Nigeria.
When the party is good the candidate is bad and when the candidate is good the political party is bad. When the party has a chance the candidate has no chance and when the candidate has a chance the political party has no chance.

Na same Tinubu said, PVC don expire and people dey clap sheepishly.

APC and tinubu finding every means to rig next year election. They are already jittery.

Can't imagine a ruling party being intimidated by its own reforms. Na PDP and labour suppose dey criticize the bvas and not apc.

There's no way APC and tinubu will win next year election without them rigging,that's why they're already weary of their impending doom and disgrace. No sane Nigerian shud vote anything apc except those eating from their coven. APC o ni kuure

NigeriaIsGreat:
Hahahahaha

If you aren't daft like Naanu you should know that Obi and his inconsequential running mate will not come distant third in the coming election

If you know this then why repeating it and worrying yourself about it?

femisplash:
I can't just understand why people seem trying to twist obvious facts. Tinubu was responding to questions about diaspora voting. Are we ripe for diaspora voting?, can BVAS as at today be readily efficient for diaspora voting without being complicated?.. absolutely not. Tinubu, however said, diaspora voters will have to be captured in the future as much as they contribute to the economy.

Animal talk Don start again

Opintiwa:

Animal talk Don start again

Animal brain don show again.

femisplash:
I can't just understand why people seem trying to twist obvious facts. Tinubu was responding to questions about diaspora voting. Are we ripe for diaspora voting?, can BVAS as at today be readily efficient for diaspora voting without being complicated?.. absolutely not. Tinubu, however said, diaspora voters will have to be captured in the future as much as they contribute to the economy.

Una dey think like dis bros.

Nlfpmod, Mynd44. Dem wan skata skata.