{"id":235693,"date":"2025-09-15T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/pdp-warns-inec-against-bvas-glitches-in-2027-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:58:10","slug":"pdp-warns-inec-against-bvas-glitches-in-2027-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/pdp-warns-inec-against-bvas-glitches-in-2027-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP warns INEC against BVAS glitches in 2027 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against any attempt to manipulate the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said Nigerians will not accept excuses of \u201ctechnical glitches\u201d in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, Ologunagba said the PDP would lead the charge to ensure a transparent and credible process.<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cWe as a party are going to take charge. Nigerians will not listen to any story about glitches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere must be none because the infrastructure in the country today can support it. If you can support POS in the remotest part of this country, INEC should be on notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2027 must be seamless, free, fair, transparent and credible. Any attempt to abridge the rights of Nigerians to choose their leaders will be resisted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He accused President Bola <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of \u201cendorsement shopping\u201d out of fear of the PDP\u2019s renewed strength ahead of the polls.<\/p>\n<p>He stated: \u201cIf indeed the president is doing well and the APC is succeeding, you let your work speak for you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is, they are not doing well. Nigerians know that APC has failed. People cannot feed their families, they cannot pay school fees, and there is anxiety over new taxes, including the proposed five percent levy on petroleum products. That is not governance but panic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PDP spokesman said the APC was sustaining \u201ca pyramid of lies,\u201d adding that the government has failed to translate promises into meaningful improvements in the lives of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Ologunagba said the credibility of the 2027 election would depend on INEC\u2019s ability to transmit results from polling units in real time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf POS works in every village, BVAS should work too. Anything to the contrary will amount to institutional manipulation. Nigerians are wiser now,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The article was originally published on Politics Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against any attempt to manipulate the 2027 elections. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said Nigerians will not accept excuses of \u201ctechnical glitches\u201d in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, Ologunagba said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Debo-Ologunagba-PDP-spokesperson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}