The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, addressed the report that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed during the Osun State governorship election on Saturday.
Yakubu told journalists in Abuja on Saturday that the BVAS did not fail during the election in Osun State.
The Chairman of INEC was in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to observe the BVAS mock accreditation exercise.
Remember that Ademola Adeleke was sacked as governor of Osun State a few days ago by the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal for over-voting at over 700 polling units in the July 16, 2022 governorship election.
Speaking on the matter, Yakubu stated that the BVAS machine used during the Osun State governorship election was not on trial.
He did, however, say that the commission had learned some lessons from the decision.
Yakubu went on to say that he would not comment further on the matter because it was still in court.
He said;
The BVAS never failed anywhere and as you have seen here, the machine actually never failed. I wouldn’t like to comment on a matter in court as it is subjudice but in every situation, the commission learns and carries the experience from what has happened to improve the processes for the next election. We have learnt some lessons from what happened and one of the lessons is to be able to transmit the accreditation data.
During this mock exercise, we have assembled result sheets that will transmit the accreditation data but there are no results sheets here because people have not voted. So on INEC Result Viewing (IReV) Portal, we have created a new URL for those of you that are on the IReV portal. And if you go home after 2.30 pm, you will see the result of the mock transmitted from the 437 polling units (PUs) nationwide, including the details of accreditation and we are going to transmit both the results on election day and the accreditation figures so that the two will rhyme.