Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has revealed that he is not confident in the method the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) plans to use in the 2023 general elections.
The candidate said this during his speech at the Chatham House, London, on Monday.
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He claims he is yet to be assured that the technology being deployed is “reliable, dependable and assuring”.
INEC introduced the use of technological devices like the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) and the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IRev) for the accreditation of voters and electronic transmission of results, respectively.
Although this is the first time the technologies are being used for the general elections, they have been used in the governorship elections of Ekiti and Osun states.
Responding to a question on if he would push for diaspora voting if he was elected in 2023, Tinubu revealed his lack of confidence in this process.
He said, “I think it was El-Rufai last night that mentioned that diaspora voters are entitled to voting
“If you make contributions to the economy with remittances that you have been making, your right to vote should not be abrogated but promoted. However, we are still building confidence in our democratic and voting systems.
“INEC is still yet to assure us during this election that electronic transmission, the technology being used for accreditation and, you know, the total vote count is reliable, dependable and assuring in our democratic process — before we introduced a complicated element of mail-in ballots and all that.”
