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November 21, 2024 6:54 amThe dust from the Ondo state governorship election was yet to settle when former President Olusegun Obasanjo fired a salvo, calling for the sack of the Independent National Electoral Commission chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, and other officials at all levels.
For the younger generation, it is essential to understand the context of Nigeria’s electoral history, why and how we arrived at reforms like BVAS and IReV which represent a departure from the irregularities of the past.This is an opportunity to remind Nigerians that in 2022, under this current leadership, INEC opened itself to scrutiny by publishing the voters register online for the first time.
While these reforms are not perfect, they have shifted Nigeria’s elections towards greater credibility. These were dark chapters in Nigeria’s electoral history, marked by a lack of transparency, manipulation, and disregard for democratic principles. It was so bad that during the 2007 general election in Rivers state, election results were being declared while voting was still in progress.In fact, the winner of that election, President Musa Yar’Adua was so embarrassed by the outcome that he vowed to review the election. That review gave birth to the Justice Uwais committee.
Because former President Olusegun Obasanjo is an eldstatesman, I would like to conclude my conversation with a simple analogy of a father and child relationship. INEC, under successive leaderships, has made deliberate efforts to address the flaws of the past. The introduction of the bimodal voter accreditation system and IReV has brought significant improvements. These technologies ensure transparent voter accreditation, faster result uploads, and greater public access to election results in real-time.
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