Onu Declares NASENI’s Solar-powered Electronic Voting System Ready

The solar-powered electronic voting system produced by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) is ready for use, according to the Minister for Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu.

Onu, who made this known on Thursday in Abuja, said the product is of world standard designed for effective and efficient voting.

According to him, the use of the indigenous voting system for 2019 or 2022 could only be decided by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC).

“We have improved on our solar powered electronic voting system so much that we have taken it to INEC and shown it to the chairman and all the National Commissioners. They were very impressed.

“We took it to the National Economic Council where the Vice President is chairman and all our governors are members and showed it to them.”

“But I can’t say when the solution will be used whether in 2019 or 2022 that is a decision to be taken by INEC but our law now allows electronic voting, he said.”

Onu said the aim of developing the solar-powered electronic voting machine is to ensure free and fair elections as well as to tackle current electoral challenges.

The minister further revealed that the machine had provisions for real-time election results collation and provision for diaspora voting.