2023: Yakubu Assures On Appropriate Technology Deployment 

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, has declared that the commission would deepen the deployment of appropriate technology for the conduct of elections.
He re-assured Nigerians that the 2023 general election would be credible.
“Our vision for the 2023 general election is to conduct one of the best general elections conducted in Nigeria, which is going to be free, fair, credible, transparent, inclusive and verifiable,” he declared.
Speaking at a forum with the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) in Lagos, Yakubu described as progressive the provisions of the new Electoral Act, that empowered the Commission to take certain decisions like the deployment of technology.
“We are not only going to continue to deepen the deployment of technology,  we are also going for appropriate technology because inappropriate technology may create its own problems,” he said.
According to him, the Commission is making preparations for 95 million voters in the 2023 elections.
He debunked the alleged manipulation of the voters’ register by the Commission, disclosing that INEC was yet to add the 12 million fresh registrants into the register.
Yakubu said, “elections are only one of the many aspects of our democracy, yet it is perhaps the most significant indicator of our democracy.
“There can’t be a democracy without elections. So, democracy can’t exist without elections.
“But the importance of elections is not difficult to understand. In a single day’s event, the lives and livelihoods, in the case of Nigeria, of at least 200 million people, will be impacted upon for the next four years, for better or for worse.
“The beauty of democracy is that this determination, whether for better or for worse, is made by the people themselves.
“Now, elections test the collective capacities and weaknesses of a country to its limit.
“Election preparations, deployment and implementation constitute the most expensive mobilisation that could happen in a country whether in peacetime or war.