INEC will deepen electoral process with use of technology — Osun REC
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) in Osun State has said the commission will continue to deepen the electoral process with the use of technology in Nigeria.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner of the electoral body in Osun State, Dr. Mutiu Agboke stated that the commission is working on various technologies to deploy for free, fair, and credible elections.
Agboke disclosed this over the weekend in Osogbo, Osun State capital, and said the commission will not shy away from the use of technology.
According to him, the commission believes in the technology. He said, “INEC will continue to deepen the process with the use of technology, as I’m talking to you the commission is looking at various options of technology that can be deployed.
“Over the years the commission has been developing year in and Year out, election in and election out and if you look at it from 2011 till date the only thing that remains manual now is the actual casting of the ballot. The registration is technology, the accreditation is technology, the verification of accreditation is technology, even the process of uploading the results is technology that is not collation.
“The misconception in the public is that our opportunity of transparency which made us create the IREV platform is misinterpreted. IREV is not a platform for the collation, the actual collation is at the collation center but we want you to have access to see what we are doing, that is why we upload it at each stage but people wanted to use that opportunity as a coalition platform that was what generated all the noises you have heard in the last election.
“Look at the introduction of Bypass so far as I seated INEC it has given us the certainty of our result, it gave us the certainty of accreditation because the number of people that voted in a particular unit cannot exceed the number of accredited voters when that happens manipulation as happen before now that couldn’t have happened.
“No INEC staff can assist anybody maybe people don’t know the technology today on election day, deployment of material is being monitored on various platforms, how materials are moving from CBN to local government, from local government, even in the morning the time you are deploying your material is being monitored on the dashboard these are the things we use technology to achieve,” he added.
