Osun Election: Civic group raises alarm over violence, BVAS glitches

The Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness has raised interest implicit alleged pre-election violence, inflammatory governmental rhetoric and method challenges involving the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, up of the Osun State governorship election.

The civic organisation made its presumption known successful a pre-election reflection study dated August 12, 2026, signed by its Director-General and Head of Mission, Dr Nwambu Gabriel.

It said it deployed observers crossed the 30 section authorities areas of the authorities to show developments up of the poll.

“The organisation observed an summation successful registered voters pursuing the Continuous Voter Registration exercise, describing the improvement arsenic an denotation of increasing civic involvement and participation.

“Registered voters successful Osun accrued from 1,954,800 to 2,339,233, representing an summation of astir 384,000 registered voters,” parts of the study read.

However, the Centre said the improved mobilisation of voters is being threatened by governmental tension, hatred speech, electoral unit and concerns implicit the reliability of election...