Falana Offers Tips To Candidates On How To Protect 2023 Votes

<h4>Falana Offers Tips To Candidates<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Mr&period; Femi Falana&comma; a Senior Advocate of Nigeria&comma; SAN and leading advocate for good governance has offered tips to candidates in the 2023 general elections on how to protect their votes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Falana&comma; who spoke on Sunday morning during an interactive session on Arise TV&comma; noted that Bimodal Voter Accreditation System&comma; BVAS&comma; has become &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A game changer&comma;” in Nigeria’s democratic practice and therefore should be given the desired considerations in candidates’ planning and execution of strategies to win elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Political parties should educate their supporters on the importance of BVAS and make them to understand that they must subject themselves to BVAS accreditation so that votes can count&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Falana noted that he is very confident in the leadership of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;tribuneonlineng&period;com&sol;">Independent National Electoral Commission&comma; INEC<&sol;a> led by Professor Mahmood Yakubu but added for the country to achieve credible poll on February 25 and March 31 respectively&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;All hands must be on deck for a successful poll&period; Political parties&comma; agents must ensure proper elections are conducted&period; Voters must be captured by BVAS&period; Media must play a sensitization role&comma;” he advised&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Optimistically&comma; Falana hinted that a time will come when election results will no longer be in dispute because the process will be transparent enough to dissuade losers from going to court&period; But to achieve that&comma; he stressed that the current BVAS method must be supported to work&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Above all&comma; Falana who digested the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal judgment last week which reversed the results of the July 16 election contest&comma; emphasized that the most important aspect of the judgment &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Is the use of BVAS&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;