Senator Adeola Votes In Ilaro, Expresses Reservation Over BVAS Malfunction

Posted on February 25, 2023

MICHAEL AKINOLA 

The Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun West, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, has expressed concern over what he called misplacement and missarrangement of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation (BVAS) machine.

Adeola, who is contesting for the Ogun West Senatorial District seat in Ogun State, expressed reservations over inconclusive election as a result of the failure of the BVAS machine to work.
Adeola expressed the concern while speaking to journalists shortly after casting his vote his vote at ward 1, unit 9, Pahayi, Ilaro, Ogun State.
He also lamented inadequate adhoc staff engaged by the INEC.
Adeola said that the inability of INEC to appropriately distribute the BVAS machine had delayed voting in some areas and could prevent some polling units from conducting the election.
He said, “As you can see I have voted, initially there were some hiccups with the issue of BVAS in terms of misplacement or missarrangement of the BVAS machine”.
“I was reliably informed that, at my polling unit, it was BVAS that was meant for polling unit 04 but later when it was discovered, it has to be changed to BVAS 009 since then we have been captured, also we have already voted and I hope that INEC will be on top of their game because we cannot afford to have issues with the BVAS machine.
“As the electoral act as clearly stated, there is no alternative, in any polling unit where the BVAS machine is not working, that election has to be postponed and conducted the following day and when you look at the process, once a polling unit left out that means the election is inconclusive until that election is held before you can have a complete election, so I hope the INEC with their staff will be on top of their game.”

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