The chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who confirmed that the electronic voting system would not be used in the 2019 general elections, said Nigeria was yet to put in place both legal framework and other requirements needed for such system to come on stream.
Speaking while addressing participants at the International Press Institute world conference, which took place in Abuja, the chairman observed that though technology has been deployed in the conduct of recent exercises, but would be unattainable in 2019 elections because of the chains leading to the ultimate step were yet to be met.
“There is no electronic balloting in 2019. In other words, there will be no electronic voting in the next general election but technology is already being used in many aspects of the processes. Electronic voting should be the ultimate step in the chain involving five inter-related processes,” he said.
It would be recalled at the recent local council elections in Kaduna State electronic voting system as an issue as contestants took the Kaduna State Electoral Commission to task for failing to deploy the card readers and other devices which opposition parties believe could have guaranteed a credible exercise.
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