INEC Speaks On Relationship Between BVAS, IReV Ahead Of Gov’ship Elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said its Results Viewing Portal (IReV) and the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) are two separate entities and independent of each other.

Naija News reports that Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary CPS to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made this known on Thursday.

Speaking with the Vanguard, Oyekanmi said the only relationship between the two is that the BVAS is used to transmit polling units’ election results to the IReV at the conclusion of polls.

He, however, denied claims that the glitches experienced with IReV in the February 25 elections impacted negatively on the functionality of the BVAS.

He said: “There is also a provision for the BVAS to transmit the PU result in the offline mode if there is no network at the polling unit at the time of the activity.

“The INEC Result Viewing portal IReV and BVAS are two separate entities, and they are independent of each other”.

“The relationship between the two is that the BVAS is used to transmit the picture of Form EC8A, which is the Polling Unit Result Sheet in PDF format, as well as the Voters’ Accreditation Data to the IREV.

“Therefore, the glitches suffered by the IReV for some hours on 25th February could not have affected the functionality of the BVAS, which in any case, performed its duty excellently on election day.”

Oyekanmi also dismissed claims that the BVAS is an invention of one staff member of INEC, stressing that the idea of the technology is that of the commission.