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The Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Achumie Rex, on Wednesday, alleged that some politicians were making desperate efforts to manufacture the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine and hack into the commission\u2019s server ahead of the 2023 general election.<\/p>\n
This was as he reiterated the electoral umpire\u2019s resolve to make the 2023 general election free and fair, adding that there would be simultaneous accreditation and voting on election days.<\/p>\n
Rex stated this at a two-day workshop for civil society organisations on Voter Education, organised by the Transition Monitoring Group and supported by the USAID.<\/p>\n
Fielding questions from participants shortly after delivering a paper titled: \u2018Technology and 2023 election commission\u2019, Rex revealed that INEC was working round the clock to ensure that the integrity of its server was maintained during and after the elections.<\/p>\n
READ ALSO: <\/strong>Politicians Are Buying PVCs, Persuading Voters With Money \u2013 INEC<\/p>\n He said, \u201cThere is no room to hack into INEC server,\u201d adding that \u201cpoliticians are doing everything possible to get into the INEC server or even to manufacture BVAS, but unfortunately for them, INEC is three steps ahead of their plots.\u201d<\/p>\n Allaying fears of network problem that would make BVAS work effectively at the rural areas, he said that BVAS was built on dual basis \u2014 \u201conline and offline\u201d.<\/p>\n Delivering his paper, Rex said, \u201cAt the moment, Nigerians are gradually bidding farewell to the dark days when the voter register was infested with foreign names and those days when election results were announced while voting was still ongoing. [\u2026]the 22 innovations introduced by the electoral management body, including the IReV and BVAS, have enabled the country move light years away from its electoral debacle.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Achumie Rex, on Wednesday, alleged that some politicians were making desperate efforts to manufacture the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine and hack into the commission\u2019s server ahead of the 2023 general election. This was as he reiterated the electoral umpire\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}