The National Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, promised so much about delivering the best election to Nigerians with the use of technology.
Rather than receive accolades for keeping his promise, some are of the view that what they ordered was not what Yakubu delivered, as the real-time, upload of results from polling units which Yakubu promised turned out to be a ruse.
INEC chairman at Chatham House
This informed the early choice of a new voter accreditation technology using an electronic device called the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System. We have tested it in several bye-elections and off-cycle governorship elections.
