The Spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Charles Aniagwu has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is scared of INEC’s decision to deploy Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the 2023 general elections as the device would expose the party following their abysmal performance since 2015.
Speaking on Focus Nigeria on AIT, Aniagwu said the APC fought very hard to ensure that the law backing the deployment of technology in the electoral process was not passed in the National Assembly.
According to him; “the PDP is very much disposed to the use of BVAS and can never be part of those planning to bring down the INEC Chairman because we believe that he is doing his best to improve on our electoral process.”
“The APC candidate and their members were not comfortable with the use of BVAS and you will recall when the National Assembly was debating on the Electronic Transfer of Result, the Deputy President of the Senate who is the governorship candidate of the APC in Delta, Ovie Omo-Agege and many others vehemently opposed that particular innovation which is to tell you that the APC is not too comfortable with the BVAS.
“BVAS is going to be a game changer and as a party, we are very confident that we will win through normal voting and we are hopeful that the votes of Nigerians will count.
“The INEC Chairman and his team have done so well, they may have their pitfalls as human beings but one can rate them far above average on the reforms they have brought to bear on our electoral system.
“And to a large extent, I want to believe that they have been quite neutral in the electoral process we are having at the moment,” he said.
While reacting to the alarm raised by the INEC that the 2023 general elections might be postponed as a result of the insecurity challenges across the country, Aniagwu said “INEC is raising those issues intending to get the authorities to strengthen the security agencies and I’m very happy that the president did give an assurance that we need to have confidence in our security agencies.