The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday insisted that it would not allow political parties to check the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines (BVAS).
The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, stated this on Sunday night while reacting to the call by the Labour Party (LP) to check the BVAS.
Okoye speaking on Channels TV said every political party that deployed polling agents has a copy of the polling units level results……CONTINUE READING
He further stated that if the parties insist that they want to look at the same thing their agents have, the commission won’t grant the request.
Okoye said, “On the issue of a political party saying they want to come and look at our cloud, IReV or into the brain of the BVAS, the commission will not allow that to happen.
“Every political party that deploys polling agents has a copy of the polling units level results and if a political party now says they want to come into the commission to look at the same thing their agents have already, we won’t allow that to happen because the laws do not allow that.