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OBVIOUSLY, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmoud Yakabu, must be in love with the sound of his own voice. That is why he keeps blabbing even when no one is listening.
The mistake Yakubu is making is to be so presumptuous in thinking that he can fool all Nigerians all the time simply because he tried it in 2019 and succeeded. And he did an encore in the 2023 elections, and while the country’s apex court is set to legitimise his chicanery once again, truth is, this time around, the people are not fooled.
But why am I still writing about this democracy undertaker called Mahmoud Yakubu? Well, I had made up my mind that the INEC chairman is not worth my while because it takes a certain level of numbness to shame for anyone to do what he did and still doing. But the man has started talking again. He has Giving the assurances in October last year during the Commission’s quarterly meeting with political parties in Abuja, the INEC boss said: “On this note, let me once again reassure Nigerians that there is no going back on the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, for voter accreditation.
“The method is as provided by law – electronic accreditation, electronic upload of results on the IREV portal – and that is why we are doing this mock,” he said. “That’s going to be the procedure and it’s for that reason that I will advise you also, for those who are registered on the IREV portal, that in the next two hours or so, go to the IREV portal and you will see the result of the mock accreditation from all the three states. We are uploading, as we have done in previous elections.
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