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The executive director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo has said there is no need to use Permanent Voters Card (PVC) during elections with the introduction of the Bi-Modal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS).

Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics about the forthcoming Edo and Ondo governorship elections later, Itodo said BIVAS should have cancelled out the use of PVC in the country’s elections.

He called for electoral laws to be updated to capture the new realities.

The Yiaga boss also raised a concern that most of the 269,000 intending voters who recently registered might not get their PVCs before the elections in Edo and Ondo.

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He noted that once a voter has any means of identification be it National Identity Card, driving licence or passport, and their name is on the register, they should be able to vote.

“In the 2023 elections, there were people who registered and could not collect their PVCs before the elections so they could not vote and that is an infringement on the right of those people.

“This whole process where we disenfranchise people on the basis of not securing a PVC, not because of their own doing but because there are some logistical issues on the part of the electoral commission, so these people don’t cast their votes.

“We have been advocating that we don’t need PVCs anymore for elections. I don’t understand why we are using the PVCs for election when we have a BIVAS that functions optimally for voters’ accreditation.

“If your details are already on BIVAS, you can show up with any means of identification and cast your vote,” Itodo said.

Itodo lamented that most Nigerian youths do not participate in the election process even though record shows that 67 per cent of the new registrants are within the 18-34 age bracket bu

He said many factors were responsible for the low turnout of youths, including insecurity and lack of trust in the electoral process.




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Na big advice from Yiaga Africa here. INEC should work on this advice for a way forward for our electoral process in Nigeria election

For Nigerian elections specifically, we only need to vote via our phones. This is the only way to avoid death for no cause. As for rigging, they can continue, because that's in their blood. The generation of Tinubu and Atiku will pass away soon and we'll be left with a slight updated generation of our politicians (from the south though) that would actually begin to fix Nigeria.

No election will ever be impactful as far as the current INEC chairman and electoral laws in Nigeria remains. So the PVC, BVAS, IREV portal, server, Partisan RECS, INEC, Current NASS and FG are all useless because they are part of the gang that has made Nigeria a criminal enterprise. Unbundle them or let there be a people-oriented revolution

How will the vigorously shaking old failure tinubu rig the next election??


He'll never try it

Remman:
For Nigerian elections specifically, we only need to vote via our phones. This is the only way to avoid death for no cause. As for rigging, they can continue, because that's in their blood. The generation of Tinubu and Atiku will pass away soon and we'll be left with a slight updated generation of our politicians (from the south though) that would actually begin to fix Nigeria.

I share this sentiment. Buhari ended the era of former soldiers coming back to rule this country. Tinubu and Atiku will end the era of politicians who use connection, godfatherism and money to win elections. The likes of Peter Obi, Wike and Kwankwaso (who have shown interest to be president) will usher a phase based on past performance. Past governors will become Nigeria's presidents for a long time.

At that time, what will matter the most is past achievement. Then, Nigeria won't have a choice but get better. That's if Nigérian voters put religious and tribal sentiments aside and vote for competence and credibility... and the INEC remains truly independent because how politicians got into offices matters. Nigeria is truly going through a political transition.

press9jatv:
Na big advice from Yiaga Africa here. INEC should work on this advice for a way forward for our electoral process in Nigeria election

The PVC removes discretion in identification because it carries the chip for the identification process. Saying BVAS already contains details of voters and any identification can be used depends on the discretion of the officer managing the identification process. That is a big room for error and compromise that invalidates the entire purpose of the BVAS because any chain is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain.

The suggestion of Itodo and his Yiaga Africa should be done away with because it emanates either out of ignorance or cunning to undermine the integrity of the election process.

Babinski:
The PVC removes discretion in identification because it carries the chip for the identification process. Saying BVAS already contains details of voters and any identification can be used depends on the discretion of the officer managing the identification process. That is a big room for error and compromise that invalidates the entire purpose of the BVAS because any chain is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain.

The suggestion of Itodo and his Yiaga Africa should be done away with because it emanates either out of ignorance or cunning to undermine the integrity of the election process.

Your understanding of the BVAS accreditation process appears to be limited, and your comment suggests that you have not participated in any elections since the introduction of BVAS. As someone who served as a party agent in the most recent election and voted, I can clarify that the chip in the PVC is irrelevant when voting with BVAS. The critical requirement is for your profile to be registered in the BVAS machine. If your details are not present in the machine, it cannot complete the accreditation process. Accreditation is conducted through either fingerprint or facial recognition, and the machine must match this biometric data with its records to proceed. Furthermore, the BVAS system maintains a count of the number of individuals it has accredited.

Yiaga Africa is right, what we need is only a means of identification to vote after registration.

We all want a very effective voting process.

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Spiritmask:
Your understanding of the BVAS accreditation process appears to be limited, and your comment suggests that you have not participated in any elections since the introduction of BVAS. As someone who served as a party agent in the most recent election and voted, I can clarify that the chip in the PVC is irrelevant when voting with BVAS. The critical requirement is for your profile to be registered in the BVAS machine. If your details are not present in the machine, it cannot complete the accreditation process. Accreditation is conducted through either fingerprint or facial recognition, and the machine must match this biometric data with its records to proceed. Furthermore, the BVAS system maintains a count of the number of individuals it has accredited.

Yiaga Africa is right, what we need is only a means of identification to vote after registration.

Please what is the purpose of an identification document when you already know someone and can identify him/her through biometrics (fingerprint and face recognition) as you claim BVAS does? I know the technology and technicality behind these devices. Some of the claimed functions of these devices exhibit a high level of false positives as to question their authentication capabilities. How often have you ever heard people apprehended for double voting or multiple registration on the INEC platforms? Zero. They claims they were out multiple registrations but that is a claim that is only verified by and known to them. The fact that you need a physical identity document is clear indicator that the BVAS has shortcomings and that discretionary step that it is this introducing can and will be abused.

Will the useless Mahmoud allow it work? Technical glitches idiots

Nonsense
What’s need conducting elections when it will be manipulated

When Nigerians talk, you will think they are civil minded not knowing that most people are waiting for opportunity to display their criminality.

JagabanB:
When Nigerians talk, you will think they are civil minded not knowing that most people are waiting for opportunity to display their criminality.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu is nothing but a grand El patron of heroin

Useful idiot Igbos, the mugus of the cesspit called nigeria. Another trick to get you fools to continue to follow them to validate their cesspit is out. They know that their PVC nonsense will not sell again, now they have come out with another trick which will still turn out to be more useless than PVC. This is for all the useful idiot Igbos that are foolishly and idiotically hoping to repeat another round of PVC idiocy in 2027 instead of following their kins that are about to establish their own nation called Biafra.

AngryMrMAN:
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is nothing but a grand El patron of heroin

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