Minister Advocates For Electronic Voting System In Nigeria

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, said Nigeria needs to reform its electoral system by adopting electronic voting to help eliminate errors caused by human factor in compiling results.

This was contained in a statement released by Josephine Ademu, Press and Public Relations Officer of the ministry, on Tuesday in Abuja. 

 According to her, the minister said this during a facility visit to the Electronic Development Institute (ELDI) in Awka, Anambra on Monday.

 The statement said Onu was positive that if the country reformed its electoral system and adopted e-voting, election malpractices, fraud, and less credible results would be a thing of the past. 

He said that with this in place, more Nigerians would be willing to participate in the nation’s electoral processes.

 Onu said the nation’s democratic processes would experience tremendous improvement with these reforms. 

 “Democracy is like a living organism that grows like humans, animals and plants but for this to happen, we need electronic voting which shall reduce malpractices associated with human errors,” he said. 

 He noted that with the level of innovative work done at the ELDI, Nigeria would no longer need to import electronic products.

 He said rather than import the products, they shall be produced in the country to satisfy local demand and the surplus would be exported.