2023 Nigerian Election: INEC blows smoke, reveals official stance on BVAS use in 2023 elections.

The commission stated that it will be crucial to use the INEC Election Result Viewing Portal and Bimodal Voter Accreditation System during the upcoming general election.

Festus Okoye, the national commissioner for information at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said the bimodal voter automated system (BVAS) has been deployed to 30 states ahead of the upcoming elections.

Okoye spoke on Thursday, December 8, during a workshop on election reporting organised by The Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNFJ).

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BVAS is a device introduced by INEC for the accreditation of voters through biometrics capturing, uploading of polling results and other functions.

Okoye said no amount of protest can stop the usage in the 2023 election.

He added that the use of BVAS is stipulated in the Electoral Act 2022, adding that it will be deployed to all states of the federation before the end of December.

“I have said it and I want to repeat it, even if you protest from now till tomorrow against the BVAS the commission must deploy it,” Okoye said.

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