Bode George Laments BIVAS Machines Malfunction

Former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Olabode George has expressed worry that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System(BVAS) adopted by the Independent National Electoral

Commission (INEC) for the transmitting result electronically into the commission’s server is failing, necessitating the reversal to the manual system.

Addressing journalists in Lagos, Bode George said it was against the standard for the election and unacceptable, saying, “As we are being taken back to the period of misery, when election results were manipulated between the polling units and the collation centers.

“It is the most despicable shameful act, after the certification of the veracity of the BVAS, for the transmission process of results, which was attested to, by the mock process successfully embarked on by INEC before the election, coupled by the successful deployment of the system for the Ekiti, Anambra and Osun governorship elections.”

The visibly enraged PDP chieftain said, “I make bold to say, this is a big embarrassment to Nigerians and the international community , whose hopes were raised that the giant of Africa and the most populated black nation has finally got it right and found a permanent solution to her intractable electoral quagmire of several years.

“Alas, we are being drawn back to our disgraceful past, which to me is also dealing a severe blow to the effort of developed countries like the United States (US), who made huge financial and material commitment to our electoral process, expected to chart a new course and place Nigeria in her rightful place among the comity of nations.

“How can we accept this uncivilised abuse against an established electoral reform already gazetted and entrenched as the Electoral Act in our constitution? This is nothing but a reversal of our political fortunes by several millions of backward steps.

“I am concerned that the international communities who have invested their several millions of dollars in financial and material resources would be most bemused by this most unthinkable madness, being demonstrated by the Nigerian electoral umpire,” he said.