Following the elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states, Independent National Electoral Commission will deploy 11,355 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines for voter accreditation in the November 11 governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo states.
A top official in the commission revealed that Bayelsa State has 2,244 polling units; Kogi, 3,508 polling units and Imo has 4,758 polling units.
The INEC official gave assurance that the commission would perform better in the upcoming off-season governorship elections.
He stated, “2,400 BVAS would be deployed to Bayelsa State while 5,079 and 3,876 BVAS would be used in Imo and Kogi, respectively.
“The BVAS never malfunctioned. However, we hoped to do more than what we did on March 18, 2023.”
It would be recalled that the presidential and National Assembly elections held on February 25, 2023, were marred by the BVAS malfunction while the Commission insisted that the deployed BVAS recorded a 98 per cent success
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