Introduce online voting to curb violence, voter suppression, NBA urges INEC

Chairperson of the NBA Abuja branch, Precious Nwadimuya in an interview with NAN on Thursday, said online voting will eliminate electoral violence and voter suppression.

Nwadimuya commended INEC for the introduction of the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS), adding that technology should also be introduced for voting.

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The chairperson said the introduction of BVAS prevented some regions of the country from producing humongous votes.NYSC Portal

“With the introduction of technology in voting, I can sit down in my house and vote. Nobody will intimidate or suppress me or buy my votes at home,” he said

“People are crying foul because accreditation worked very well with the BVAS, but failed in the transmission of results.

“This resulted in the speculation that the results were manually manipulated.

“I can say that because of the BVAS, they could not really manipulate the figures. Now that the BVAS captures the number of persons accredited, you cannot inflate the votes beyond what is in the BVAS.”

Nwadimuya said INEC failed in the area of logistics despite the huge amount of money budgeted for the 2023 elections.

“The feedback we got was that polling unit officers could not leave the INEC offices where they were given the election materials because there was no logistics,” he said.

“So it was as if INEC focused on carrying the election materials to far away places, but failed to make arrangements for transportation for those areas that are close.”JAMB Result