The Independent National Electoral Commission reiterated on Thursday that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will be used to accredit voters and transmit the results of the November 11 Bayelsa governorship election.
Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Obo Effanga confirmed this at a press conference at INEC’s office in Yenagoa.
According to Effanga, nearly all non-sensitive materials were already in the Local Government Areas, LGAs.
He explained that confidential documents will be stored at the Central Bank of Nigeria upon arrival.
Effanga said:
“Nothing has changed with the process of election in Nigeria. We are still going to conduct elections based on the provisions of the Constitution, Electoral Act and guidelines of INEC. After voting at the polling units, the votes will be counted there.
“They will be recorded in the physical result sheet. We will use the BVAS to take a snapshot of the results. They will be taken to the collation centre where the results are authenticated and the photograph that was taken will be uploaded onto the result viewing portal.
“Then from there, we move from the wards collation to the local government collation. From the local government collation, we come to the state collation centre. That is when the final collation is done, and the result is announced, and a winner is declared.”
Effanga stressed that the Electoral Body will strictly follow the guidelines for the election.
INEC commissioner said:
“Every vote will count. We will ensure that every personnel sent to the field are adequately qualified and knowledgeable about the processes of election. We will not interfere in any way to aid or assist anyone.
“Anybody that wants to win the election should be talking to the voters.”
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