{"id":107182,"date":"2021-11-14T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=107182"},"modified":"2021-11-14T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T15:24:13","slug":"inec-must-adopt-faster-technology-to-ensure-smooth-elections-in-2023-apga-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/14\/inec-must-adopt-faster-technology-to-ensure-smooth-elections-in-2023-apga-chieftain\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC must adopt faster technology to ensure smooth elections in 2023 &#8211; APGA chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ben Nwankwo has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to adopt a faster technology to ensure the smooth success of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated on Sunday by the former member of the House of Representatives in Awka, capital of Anambra.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nwankwo aired his views on the recently concluded Anambra gubernatorial election, won by Chukwuma Soludo, his party\u2019s candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The election was rife with complaints about the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) glitches in several polling booths across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The technology forced many registered voters to wait for hours before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/08\/anambra-inec-announces-voting-timeline-for-supplementary-election-in-ihiala\/\">voting<\/a>, and the commission had to extend voting hours in many polling units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reacting to the situation, Nwankwo praised the election as \u201cone of the best in recent times\u201d before describing the BVAS glitches as \u201cthe sad news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He added that such technological failure means Nigeria is \u201ctaking steps backward\u201d from countries of its ilk across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The former lawmaker urged INEC to acquire faster technology to ensure the smooth conduct of future elections,\u201d Nwankwo said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe election will have been one of the best in recent times, and everybody will have been commending INEC for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe Security arrangement was wonderful. There was no breakdown of law and order to the best of my knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cBut the sad news is that the technology failed to work by not being rapid that culminated in a loss of time, people coming out not getting accreditation at the right time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cINEC must strive hard to ensure that it adopts a faster technology to ensure smooth conduct of future elections, especially the 2023 poll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cNigeria by now should have been classified as a developed country, but we are taking steps backward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe procedure will have been wonderful because it was accreditation, vote and go, that will have looked like what is obtainable in advance countries of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cBut the technology was on trial, and being on trial, I think its effectiveness was around 30 percent. I don\u2019t know why it failed to work, whether it was a network issue or something else. It may be a bandwidth issue or something else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cMay it was heavy traffic that caused the network not to work. INEC should be improving. It should not be going back and front.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe budgetary provision for INEC is sufficient enough to guarantee credible and fair election. Nigeria in the 21st century should be able to organise a hitch-free and credible poll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ben Nwankwo has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to adopt a faster technology to ensure the smooth success of the 2023 general elections. This was stated on Sunday by the former member of the House of Representatives in Awka, capital of Anambra. 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