The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has reassured Nigerians of a hitch free governorship and State House of Assembly election this Saturday.
Its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu who gave the assurance at a meeting with all the thirty-six State Resident Electoral Commissioners at the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters in Abuja, said, the BIVAS will be used for the elections, adding that the devices are being reviewed to avoid a repeat of the glitches recorded in February twenty-fifth Presidential and National Assembly elections.
He noted that the deployment of BVAS has gone a long way to sanitize voter accreditation as was seen from the result of recent elections saying that since last week, the Commission had intensified review of the technology to ensure that glitches experienced, particularly with the upload of results were rectified.
