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Former Senate Minority leader, Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe, Monday, said that the introduction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS and the cash crunch occasioned by the cashless policy was instrumental to his victory in the February 25 presidential and national assembly elections. The former Deputy Governor of Abia State also said that impunity thrives […]
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No fewer than 22 Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines are reportedly missing in Rivers State, ahead as governorship and State Assembly polls hold today, Saturday, March 18, 2023. Over 6,865 of the machines deployed to the state have been successfully reconfigured for today’s polls. Three of the accreditation machines were said to have been […]
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The Labour Party, on Thursday, knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission, saying the electoral umpire deliberately came up with its idea of reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines after its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, sought to examine the election materials. This was as the party faulted the commission’s claim of backing up the data […]
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The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that preventingthe electoral umpire from […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says no data would be lost while configuring the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections. Tanimu Inuwa, counsel to the INEC, spoke on Tuesday while moving an application seeking to vary the orders of the court which gave permission to Peter Obi, […]
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Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has said that despite the introduction of the Bi -modal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS machine, manipulate of election figures had gone unchecked. He regretted that instead of abating, election rigging had rather gone digital even with the introduction of BVAS. The former Leader, ECOWAS Parliament who contested last Saturday’s senatorial election in […]
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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines have never failed and will not fail Nigerians at the 2023 general election. Yakubu said this in Abuja on Saturday while assessing activities at polling units in the Federal Capital Territory where mock accreditation of […]
Continue ReadingBy Oluwaseyi Adeniyi (ASP) The Osun Election Petition Tribunal headed by Justice Tearse Kume “Buga” has delivered his terrible verdict. Many thanks to that courageous and unblemish Justice B.A Ogbuli for setting the record straight through his own judgement. Yes, Osun citizens have organized a peaceful protest to reject the Buga judgement, which is guaranteed […]
Continue ReadingBy Sarafa Ibrahim For some time now, a lot of Nigerians have expressed concerns about the growing incursion of the judiciary into the decision-making on who leads the people. As against the known practice in democrary making the people the ultimate decider on who rules over their affairs, the judiciary in Nigeria is taking up […]
Continue Reading1. Nothing was wrong with the BVAS machines but with the INEC server as against the erroneous holding of the tribunal chairman. 2. Accreditation was by BVAS machines concurrently with the voters’ registers. BVAS machines, voters register and the forms were what were used to conduct and declare election results, not the server which the […]
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