The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has assured Nigerians that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will be used in the forthcoming governorship and state legislature elections.
Yakubu gave the assurance on Saturday in a meeting with all state Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.
According to him, the BVAS machines will be used for the elections, though the devices are being reviewed to avoid a repeat of the glitches recorded with last Saturday’s elections.
“On Election Day technology, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will once again be deployed for voter accreditation and result management,” Yakubu said.
“The deployment of BVAS has gone a long way to sanitise voter accreditation as can be seen from the result of recent elections
