The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured that the general elections would be held as scheduled on February 25 and March 11. Its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the disclosure after briefing the Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on the readiness of the commission for the polls.
Meanwhile, the commission has also given assurance that the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) cannot be manipulated.
The Deputy Director of Information and Communications Technology, INEC, Lawrence Bayode, disclosed this on Channels Television’s special election programme, The 2023 Verdict, on Wednesday.
According to Bayode, the BVAS will be deactivated from the back-end so that whoever snatched the device on election day will not be able to manipulate votes.
In time past, snatching of ballot boxes and violence by hoodlums have been experienced during different elections.
“If a BVAS is snatched, we have a system in place that can deactivate that particular BVAS,” Bayode said.
“We deactivate it so that whoever snatches the device will not be able to do anything with the device because the device pushes the accreditation data automatically on its own even without the operator pushing a button. When it is idle, it pushes that accreditation data to the back-end.”
