Ohanaeze Youths Caution INEC, APC Against Dumping BVAS

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council worldwide (OYC) has declared the fresh controversy stirred by the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Results Viewing Portal (IReV) for the 2023 general elections as unwarranted.

OYC said APC national chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu should be placed on watchlist by security agencies and the international community for allegedly toeing the path capable of destroying Nigeria.

Adamu had on Wednesday told a delegation from the Commonwealth election observation mission that Nigeria was not yet ready for such technology.

His words, “Our concern is how ready are we to deploy some of these technologies as regards transmission. To transmit results, every part of the nation, Nigeria I’m not sure that the network covers it.

“I know that even in parts of Abuja, there is no network, and we have from now till February when in substantial parts of the country, there is no electricity,” he said.

In a reaction to Adamu’s comment, the national president of OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, accused the APC of trying to truncate Nigeria’s democracy.

Okwu said Adamu’s stand was a confirmation of the earlier rumour of an ignoble plot to remove the INEC chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmood, from office over his insistence on deploying the technology to enhance the credibility of the 2023 electoral process.