Gov’ship Polls: INEC To Complete BVAS Reconfiguration On Tuesday

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) would be completed by Tuesday.

Naija News reports that this is as the commission gets prepared for the governorship and state assembly election slated for March 18.

The INEC National Commissioner,  Festus Okoye, explained on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics that data relating to the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections will not be reconfigured.

Okoye said “As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the BVAS for purposes of the governorship and state assembly elections, and any BVAS that was used for the presidential and National Assembly elections that do not push to the accreditation backend, the data relating to the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections will not be reconfigured.

“In fact, the BVAS will not allow itself to be reconfigured or reset if the entire data is not pushed to the accreditation backend.

“I’m sure that by Tuesday when we hope to complete the resettling of the BVAS for the purposes of the governorship and state assembly elections, the results in all the places where elections were conducted would have been pushed to the accreditation backend.”

The INEC commissioner also revealed that over 170,000 polling unit results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections have been uploaded on its Result Viewing Portal (IReV).

He also insisted that even though every Nigerian has the constitutional and legal right to protest, no political party will be allowed to look into the brain of the BVAS or the biometrics of voters.