2023 Election: Northern Group backs BVAS express confidence with INEC Chairman

By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna

A Coliation of Northern Youths under the agies of Unified Youths Forum, have backs the Use of Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS and also express confidence in the Leadership of current Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu.

Speaking at a Press a World Conference in Kaduna, the President of the Forum,
Abdulsalam Muhammad Kazeem said

“Despite the giant strides recorded by the current Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) especially in the area of deploying cutting edge technology such as Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for credible,fair and transparent elections as well as voter mobilisation and enlightenment.

“We dispell in strong terms the rumours making rounds that the INEC Boss and his management team have morally compromised because of pressure from political parties to deactivate BVAS.

“For the record, please note that; BVAS and all the electoral reforms currently in place have been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC majority National Assembly.

” It is again not true that INEC and indeed Professor. Yakubu Mahmood have been pressured by anybody to deactivate or stop the use of the BVAS they introduced in fulfilment of the president’s promise of delivering a transparent election.

“INEC is established by law and has a law guiding its activities. No individual can wake up and decide to deactivate the use of BVAS when the law says it should be deployed. It is inconceivable to say that the APC or any political party is pressuring INEC.

“It is in public domain,the activities of certain group of persons purporting to be promoting the interest of the north and Nigeria, but sadly working for the enemies of the nation,this persons have continued to falsely accused and demand the resignation and sack of the INEC Boss for carrying out his mandate.

We also want to make clear, ladies and gentlemen that the allegations that INEC acted in a morally compromised way and denied some persons from the north west and north central an extended period of voter registration as a result of the network shutdown for special military operations is false and misleading.

He said,we on behalf of our members pass vote of confidence on, Professor. Yakubu Muhmood and his entire teams for being worthy ambassadors of our Nation.

“In the recent elections conducted by INEC under the leadership of professor Mohmud Yakubu,INEC has earned our nation global recognitions among the committee of Nation; the era of shadow chasing is over, rather political parties should face reality and stop the blackmail against the electoral umpire.

The Forum call on all and sundry to mobilize and support the commission towards the conducts of 2023 General elections, which we believe will be the best in our nation history, we wish to also call on INEC to ensure the timely arrival and delivery of all sensitive and non-sensitive materials to all nooks and crannies with commitmented/ loyal staff to the Nation against the normal tradition and ensuring they recruit capable adhoc staff.