National Commissioner and Chairman,Voter Education Committee of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has disclosed that the electoral umpire would deploy 200,000 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the 2023 polls.
He said; “We will have one BVAS reserve in every Registration Area Centre (RAC) to ensure immediate intervention in case of any failure.
“Our technical officers would be on standby at every RAC to attend to any technical issues that could arise during the polls.”
He added that INEC has the capacity to conduct free,fair and credible elections in 2023, stressing that the commission is set to surpass the successes recorded in the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections.
Okoye warned that INEC would not extend the July 31 deadline for the on going voter registration exercise.