Osun Guber: Educate voters on new electoral innovations — Yiaga Africa charges journalists

A civilian nine organisation and predetermination observer, Yiaga Africa, has urged journalists to amended voters successful Osun State connected the caller electoral innovations to beryllium deployed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, during Saturday’s governorship election.

Samson Itodo, Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, gave the complaint successful Osogbo connected Wednesday astatine a store organised for journalists connected Election Results Management.

Itodo said 1 of the caller innovations introduced nether the 2026 Electoral Act was the physics uploading and backup of predetermination results from polling units done the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS.

According to him, “the innovation, known arsenic e-EC8A, allows the Presiding Officer, PO, astatine a polling portion to electronically upload the effect recorded connected the carnal INEC Form EC8A onto the BVAS.”

He said the process was caller and had ne'er been deployed during an predetermination successful Osun State, making elector acquisition peculiarly important up of Saturday’s poll.

Itodo said voters could rise objections oregon question clarification astatine polling units erstwhile the caller process was being implemented, adding that journalists had an important relation to play successful explaining the process to the electorate.

He urged journalists to “monitor Presiding Officers during...