'How many times has the president spoken about the role of technology in getting him into office? He has spoken about it locally, internationally that three times he contested, three times he ended at the Supreme Court because the government of the day and their cohorts will just write results...'
Femi Adesina, a media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, has debunked the president’s alleged role in the plot against the use of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation Machine System in the 2023 general elections.
The event, which is in commemoration of the 2022 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, re-established the reality of threats to press freedom in Nigeria and beyond, especially during an election year.Over 1,200 journalists were killed between 2006 and 2020 worldwide in the line of duty. Eight out of 10 of these extra-judicial killings remain unresolved, according to UNESCO.
While there have been reports of a scheme by some top members of APC to halt the use of BIVAS and sack the INEC boss, Mr Adesina described the information as untrue and should not have been reported. “Recently, there was one group that said the chairman of INEC was going to be removed, maybe because the government didn’t want BVAS. How many times has the president spoken about the role of technology in getting him into office? He has spoken about it locally, internationally that three times he contested, three times he ended at the Supreme Court because the government of the day and their cohorts will just write results, they never voted.
Mr Adesina argued that his principal would not have been advocating for free, fair and credible elections at every forum if he had the intention of sabotaging Nigeria’s democratic principles and electoral signs of progress achieved so far under his leadership. Spokesperson to President Buhari, Femi Adesina , INEC National Commissioner, Mohammed Haruna and Nigeria’s Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami
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