{"id":43844,"date":"2022-10-13T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/?p=43844"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:13:32","slug":"2023-elections-95m-voters-to-determine-buharis-successor-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/10\/13\/2023-elections-95m-voters-to-determine-buharis-successor-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Elections: 95m voters to determine Buhari\u2019s successor – INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ninety-five million voters are expected to determine President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>successor in office in the 2023 poll, \u00a0the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said.<\/p>\n

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, said this at a function organised by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Washington DC, U.S.<\/p>\n

Yakubu said this in a keynote address titled \u201cNigeria 2023: ensuring credible, peaceful and inclusive elections\u201d, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He described the 2023 general election as significant to Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe election is significant because the incumbent President is not eligible to run, this being his second and final term.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 18 political parties in the race to produce the next President to be elected by 95 million voters. We had over 84 million registered voters in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut with last Continuous Voter Registration(CVR), we are going to add at least 10 million Nigerians and that will take the Register of Voters to 95 million,\u201d Yakubu said.<\/p>\n

He said that election was significant as 95 million Nigerians were expected to vote in 176, 846 polling units.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach time Nigeria goes to the poll, it is like the whole of West Africa voting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn West Africa, there are 15 countries including Nigeria. But the total number of registered voters in the 14 countries combined is 73 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Nigeria, it\u2019s going to be 95 million. So, there will be 22 million more voters in Nigeria than the whole of West Africa put together,\u201d Yakubu said.<\/p>\n

The chairman said that INEC has learnt a lot of lessons from the 2015 and 2019 general election as well as 103 off-cycle election and bye-election conducted after the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n

He added that a lot of innovations have been introduced to increase transparency and ensure credibility of the country\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new Electoral Act with its many progressive provisions has provided legal backing to the innovations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese innovations are now provided for and protected by law, especially those leveraging on technology to improve voter registration, voter accreditation, result management and the promotion of inclusivity for marginalised persons such as women, youths and persons with disability,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yakubu said that the introduction of online voter registration was part of the innovations, saying it was very helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

He said that the online registration was done alongside physical registration from June 2021 to June 2022 when that option lasted and 12, 298, 944 voters completed their registration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is more than the entire voter population in the Republic of Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cape Verde. We are such a huge country of great potentials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yakubu said that INEC has completed the cleaning up of the data of newly registered voters using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)<\/strong> <\/a>that combine the fingerprint and the facial authentication of registered voters.<\/p>\n

He said that those who registered twice and those who were underage or have no reason to register as provided by law have been weeded out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exercise was completed a few days ago. We have not even shared the information with Nigerians, but we have 2.7 million invalid registrants and they have been weeded out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to take steps necessary to protect the integrity of the Register of Voters because it is fundamental to the conduct of elections. There can\u2019t be credible elections without a credible register of voters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yakubu said that Permanent Voters\u2019 Cards (PVC) would be available for new registrants by Novembe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at early to the middle of the month to make the cards available.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already printed over 50 percent of the cards but we haven\u2019t delivered them to the states yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we clean the data, we also print the cards. Nigerians who have registered should be rest assured that they will have their cards ahead of the general election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also need to do so in good time because the law now requires us to publish the number of cards collected per polling unit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yakubu added that INEC also introduced other portals for things like accreditation of observers, media organisations, nomination of candidates by political parties and nomination of polling agents by parties.<\/p>\n

He said the innovations have also been helpful in reducing the level of litigation arising from the conduct of political parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is because now it\u2019s an interaction between the party agents and the machines and anytime you logged in and out, there is a time stamp, so you can\u2019t argue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you argue, we\u2019ll produce the evidence of what happened. And at 6p.m. on a fixed date, the portal automatically shuts down. If any party has any problem, it\u2019s not the Commission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On BVAS innovation, Yakubu said that the use of the technology in the Nigeria\u2019s electoral system has come to stay and there was no going back.<\/p>\n

He said that the technology had help to eliminated multiple accreditations that was observed in previous elections, increased public confidence in the outcome of elections and eliminated the use of the Incident Form.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother innovation that we introduced is the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal. We are perhaps one of the few countries in the world that transmits polling unit level results in real time on election day.<\/p>\n

\u201cProudly, I can say we are the first to introduce it in Africa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yakubu said that IReV has increased transparency in result management and helped to eliminate the falsification of results from polling unit level to the collation centres.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have deployed the IReV in 105 off-cycle and bye-election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that the system is robust and we are taking additional measures to safeguard and fortify our web resources generally against threats of attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On inclusivity, Yakubu said that INEC has created a new Department for Gender and Inclusivity in the commission.<\/p>\n

He added that within the limits of available resources, INEC has also provided assistive devices for Persons with Disabilities, such as braille ballot guide and magnifying glasses for the vision impaired and those living with Albinism.<\/p>\n

Yakubu said going into the 2023 general election, the first concern was the insecurity in different parts of the country, compounded by thuggery during elections organised by some of the political actors.<\/p>\n

\u201cElections are conducted by human beings. We worry about the security of our officials, voters and the materials to be deployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout them, we cannot conduct elections. We have spoken to the security agencies; they have assured us that the situation will improve before the elections. So, fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who are supposed to secure the environment have assured us that they will secure the environment for us to conduct elections. Our responsibility is to conduct elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that INEC was concerned on the issue of fake news, but as a commission was did not support censorship, saying that it was deepening transparency and harmonising available opportunities to address fake news which has impact on elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that the antidote to fake news is greater transparency and openness and we have been demonstrating greater transparency and openness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe social media plays a very important role in voter education and deepening democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it also has the potential of skewing the narrative with the wrong information that impugn the integrity of officials or seek to delegitimise the commission and the process before, during or after the elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublication of fake election results is a potential trigger for violence. What we have done is to continue to deepen our cooperation and relationship particularly with the organised social media,\u201d Yakubu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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