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We’ve developed machine that makes conducting all elections same day possible – minister
The Ministry of Science and Technology says it has developed a new machine that made the conduct of all national elections in a day possible.
Dr Ogbonanya Onu, who spoke with State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting, stated that Council was briefed on the machine in the performance assessment report he submitted on Thursday.
He added that the electronic voting machine would be solar-powered.
The minister explained,
“This voting solution will help us to have clean elections in Nigeria and will make it possible for us as a nation to conduct all our elections in one day at the same time.
“All the elections, the national, state and local governments; seven of them can be conducted the same day.”
Onu spoke on other qualities of the machine, saying,
“It is paperless and the machine is designed in a way that it doesn’t store data.
“So, if somebody comes to snatch it away, it’s a waste of time. As soon as data comes into it, it transmits it. So basically, you’ll have a system that will be addressing many of the problems that we have today in the conduct of our elections.”
The minister said the ministry was in consultation with the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] on the machine, which had also been presented to the National Economic Council [NEC].
“We have gone to INEC on this to set up a committee; we also took this before the National Economic Council and we are still working to further improve on the system.”, he added.
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