INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has stated that there shall be no use of the digital voting system within the 2019 normal elections.
Professor Yakubu stated this on Friday whereas addressing members on the International Press Institute world convention which befell in Abuja.
“There is not any digital balloting in 2019. In different phrases, there shall be no digital voting within the subsequent normal election however know-how is already being utilized in many facets of the processes.
“Electronic voting should be the ultimate step in the chain involving five inter-related processes,” he stated.
The event additionally noticed the adoption of the revised 2018 version of the Nigerian Media Code of election protection by media stakeholders throughout the nation, with the European Union pledging to help free, truthful and clear elections in Nigeria.