To handle any issues that might develop during the elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has stated that it is collaborating with the major network service providers, including MTN, Glo, Airtel, and 9Mobile.
This speech was delivered by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the commission. He claimed that the commission has taken all necessary precautions to defend its systems and procedures from malicious attacks.
He continued by saying that while the BVAS simply requires an online process at the point of polling unit uploading, INEC has extensive experience transmitting election results via the EV.
Having taken the necessary precautions to strengthen and safeguard our systems and procedures. I must also admit that we are keeping some aspects of cyber security to ourselves because walls have ears, but Nigerians may rest easy knowing that we are aware that our resources could be attacked, and we have taken precautions.
In Nigeria, we have vast experience transmitting results in real-time. Results for 105 constituencies around the country were successfully sent. Please know that we are aware of the difficulties and that the commission has the resources necessary to address them. Because it is not an electronic voting machine, the BVAS won’t be accessible online on election day. It is entirely inactive.
When we transmit the polling unit’s results and we are ahead of the game, that is when we require a little bit of internet bandwidth.
The INEC chairman spoke on the matter of the Labour Party emblem being missing from the ballots for the Lagos House of Representatives: The commission has a history of adhering to court rulings.
We have already given our legal department the duty of reviewing all the judgments we have been receiving, which have been arriving almost daily.
The party you’re referring to served INEC with 70 processes for candidate nomination in a single day, and in Lagos, for just Federal Constituencies, we accepted the nomination of candidates from that party by court order in 13 out of 24 Federal Constituencies.
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Thus, we will review the court order and respond appropriately. A secure voting process would be ensured by the deployment of 425,106 security personnel, according to the Inspector General of Police.
The IGP also indicated that the people were drawn from the Nigeria Police, Nigeria Security, and Civil Defense Corps and that the amount excluded members of the Nigerian Military Forces.
Others may come from the Nigeria Immigration Service, the Federal Road Safety Commission, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, the Nigerian Prisons Service, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.310,973 people work for the police, 51,000 for Nigeria Security and Civil Defense, 21,000 for the Federal Road Safety Corps, 11,336 for the Nigerian Correctional Service, 9,447 for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, 350 for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and 21,000 for the Nigeria Immigration Service, according to him.
Also, Baba stated that during the election, orderlies assigned to Very Important Personalities will be removed, and even if they had taken the VIP to the voting location, they should wait until the VIP had cast their ballot before escorting them back.
Conclusion
In addition, concerning any election, we anticipate that our dignitaries will refuse to be escorted to the polls by armed bodyguards or orderlies.
They should stop or keep their distance even if they are escorting them so that the person can cast his ballot and leave with his assistants.
soldiers are not anticipated in the voting booths and also the police have been instructed to comply. By our means of contact, those of them with VIPs have also been fully informed as well.
Source: PunchÂ
