INEC boss, Yakubu meets with RECs ahead of guber polls, assures improved BVAS

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Saturday, held a meeting with all Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja, where he assured Nigerians that there will be an improvement in the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) ahead of the March 11 governorship and state legislature elections.

According to Yakubu, despite the irregularities and short coming of the BVAS machines in the presidential and National Assembly elections, the machines will still be used for the upcoming elections

The INEC boss said the devices are being worked on to avoid a repeat of the glitches recorded with the last elections.