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2023: No going back on BVAS, Presidency assures

Stanley Osariemen by Stanley Osariemen
November 3, 2022
in The Nation
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The Presidency has restated its commitment to ensure credible elections in 2023, noting that President Muhammadu Buhari would stand by the deployment of the Bimodal Voters’ Accreditation System (BVAS).

Femi Adesina, special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari disclosed this Tuesday while delivering his goodwill message at the 2022 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.

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The theme of this year’s celebration is “Media, Civil Society and Violence-Free Election in Nigeria.”

Adesina was reacting to the recent alarm raised by some civil society organisations, CSOs, and spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, Ikenga Ugochinyere, about plans by some political actors to remove the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, through the National Assembly and also deactivate BVAS from being used in the 2023 election and ultimately stop electronic transmission of results.

He said: “How many times has the President spoken about the role of technology in getting him into office? He has spoken about it locally and internationally that three times he contested and three times he ended up in the Supreme Court because the government of the day wrote the results and they never voted.

“He (Buhari) said until technology came and there was a permanent voter card, it was difficult to write results. So, how can the same person now have issues with BVAS?”

Adesina, however, told the media to trumpet Buhari’s assurance of a free, fair, and credible election and ignore those out to cause confusion in the 2023 general election.

In his remarks, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, said Buhari’s government was committed to ending undemocratic and uncultured activities in the country.

He reiterated his call on those still involved in the electioneering process to appreciate the fact that political activities would be observed by the provisions of the Electoral Law.

“It is important to note that recent developments in Nigeria have proved that the Federal Government has laudable initiatives to end impunity for crimes against Nigerian citizens.

“The Committee to Protect Journalists’ report says Nigeria was the only country to get off the index of nations with impunity for crimes against journalists in 2020,” Malami said.

The special guest of honour and governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, who was represented by the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Lawan Abdullahi, said “the peaceful outcome of the 2023 general election lies in the hands of the media.”

The Chairman of INEC, who was also represented by a National Commissioner, Mohammed Haruna, said: “We should remember that regardless of our profession, religion, or ethnicity, we are all the country’s stakeholders of peace and progress.”

 

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