Why February 25 Will Be Nigeria’s Most Credible Presidential Election—INEC

<h4>Why February 25 Will Be Nigeria’s Most Credible Presidential Election<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission &comma; INEC&comma; has exposed its final strategy to ensure that the February 25 presidential and other subsequent elections slated for 2023 become the most credible in the political history of Nigeria&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This assurance came against the backdrop of the deploemet of technoly to ensure true reflection of accurate counting of votes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Commission which imported additional Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines that will be deployed nationwide in all the polling units for the 2023 elections&comma; took delivery of the last batch of the machines at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport&comma; Abuja&comma; on Tuesday saying it is in line with its contingency provisions for all critical election materials&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To avoid error&comma; the National Commissioner and Chairman&comma; Information and Voter Education Committee&comma; Festus Okoye said that 176&comma;846 polling units would receive a BVAS each&comma; adding that each registration area amounting to 8&comma;809&comma; would also get at least two BVAS as backup in case of malfunction&comma; bringing the total to over 194&comma;464 BVAS machines&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17694" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17694" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17694" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Obi-Tinubu-and-Atiku-300x171&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Why February 25 Will " width&equals;"300" height&equals;"171" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17694" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><strong>Obi&comma; Tinubu&comma; Atiku<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Okoye said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have 176&comma; 846 polling units in Nigeria&period; All of them will have a BVAS&period; Some polling units may still have more than 750 registered voters&period; We shall deploy additional <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">BVAS<&sol;a> to such polling units&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have 8&comma;809 registration areas in Nigeria&period; Each one will have at least two BVAS for purposes of quick intervention in cases of sustained malfunction of BVAS in any of the polling units in each electoral ward&period;’’<br &sol;>&NewLine;These backups&comma; in the estimation of stakeholders&comma; are the needed assurance for a credible poll in the much awaited election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;18057" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-18057" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-18057" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;IMG-20220424-WA0000&period;&period;&period;&period;-300x194&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Why February 25 Will " width&equals;"300" height&equals;"194" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-18057" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><strong>Uduaghan&comma; Okowa&comma; Ibori believe in BVAS<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;