Nigeria’s electoral body, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given reasons why it would not allow any political party access to its database containing biometric information of all registered voters.
INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, Barrister Festus Okoye while speaking on
Channels TV‘s politics today, said in accordance with the provisions of
the law, all the parties have already been given copies of the register of voters
as well as their polling units.
He added that INEC will by Tuesday conclude the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System
(BVAS) for deployment to the polling units.
Okoye noted that any BVAS that fails to provide a backup system for the results
of the Presidential and National Assembly election will not be reconfigured for
the March 18 Governorship and Assembly elections.
The INEC National Commissioner while noting that there is no
backup plan for the IREV during the
governorship election, said when there are challenges with upholding polling
units' results during the election, the ICT department is equipped to deal with
such challenges.
While reacting to the judgment
directing the Commission to allow two individuals to vote with the Temporary
Voters card, Okoye said the commission has already filed an appeal as INEC is
the only body allowed by law to determine what can be used for voting.
He averred that the slip given to the
individuals during registration was to let voters know that they have been
registered while the information they provided are being processed.
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