The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign
Council, PCC, has expressed confidence that the use of the Bimodal Voter
Accreditation System, BVAS, will help to eliminate money politics from the
Nigeria elections.
Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson for APC PCC, stated this
when he appeared at the News Agency of Nigeria forum in Abuja on Sunday.
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment also
commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the
introduction of electronic transmission of results from polling units.
He said with the introduction of the two technologies into
Nigeria elections, gone were the days where electoral officers and security
agencies were being paid to change results at collation centres.
He said before now, money was being used to bribe security
agencies and electoral officials to alter results, but BVAS will take that
away.
Keyamo described BVAS as a blessing to the Nigeria electoral
System.
“Let’s be honest. You can see it in one or two isolated
units, can you buy 40 million votes?
“You see in one or two units people sharing money, you now say
the whole election is tinted. That is not true. You can’t buy so many votes.
“Even when you give people money to go and give to voters,
they rather pocket the money; they will not give them, they would rather beg
them. So that’s the truth.
“The money they used those days was to bribe security
agents; when they bring results to polling unit collation centres, they would
drive everybody, switch off light, switch papers before you come, abracadabra
has happened.
“For me, BVAS is a blessing. BVAS is a blessing because it
will deemphasize money in politics.
“From the unit level straight to the central server in
Abuja, you can access the central server from the ward collation center but you
cannot change it, but you can enter and see what has been transmitted to Abuja.
“So when the wrong copy comes from the unit, you can compare
and say this is what has been transmitted to Abuja.
“Who do you want to bribe there? Nobody.
“So for me, even BVAS has reduced the issue of money in
politics, and I love that,” he said.
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