On November 8, 2025, the CDD War Room received a claim via the Check by Meedan tool that the Biometric Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) had suffered a glitch in Onitsha, thereby disrupting the voting exercise. This claim comes amidst the ongoing gubernatorial election in Anambra State. Claim: BVAS glitch disrupted voting exercise in Onitsha Verification...
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Viral Claim by SDP’s Ijele Alleging Manipulation of BVAS for Kogi State Governorship Poll: ALL WE KNOW
Isaiah Davies Ijele, Media Director of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), recently claimed in a statement, that the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is plotting with staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to manipulate the Bimodal Voter Accreditation (BVAS) device for the November 11, 2023 Governorship election. According to the statement, which...
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FACT CHECK: Was N355 Billion Spent on Acquisition of BVAS?
On September 10, 2023, Dele Momodu, a politician and publisher of Ovation Magazine, who served as the director of strategic communications for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, posted on his Instagram page, “N355 billion for BVAS and 5 person’s said it wasn’t necessary to use it? Isn’t that laughable? Oh, what a...
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FACT CHECK: Can BVAS be pre-loaded before voting starts?
Ahead of the March 18 elections, a text circulating rapidly on WhatsApp, created the impression that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) can be preloaded before voting starts on election day. The viral post urges the electorate to monitor the BVAS machine before the voting exercise begins as it claims that it has to be...
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FACT CHECK: Did 10 BVAS machine go missing in Oporoza community RAC?
Multiple posts making the rounds online claim that some Bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) machines were missing in Oporoza community in Warri South West Local Government Area. The tweets claimed 10 BVAS were missing out of the supposed 23 that were made available for the 23 polling units in the community. Verification CDD Election War...
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FACT CHECK: Can BVAS work and transmit results without a SIM card?
A video has been going viral in Kwara state that some BVAS machines in Alanamu, Ilorin West Local Government Area have no SIM card. The video caption reads: “SITUATION REPORT: APC plot to rig busted. Any BVAS without a SIM card must not be allowed to be used, because such BVAS won’t be able to...
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FACT CHECK: Will INEC reconfiguration of BVAS erase presidential election data?
In the last few days, there has been news going around that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wants to reconfigure the Bimordal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS). There are insinuations that the configuration will erase all the data on the system in preparation for the gubernatorial and state assembly elections. Similarly, the BVAS configuration has...
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FACT SHIELD: All you need to know about BVAS, INEC’s new system for tackling electoral fraud
There’s been quite some controversy around the Bi-Modal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) being employed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the presidential and subnational elections in February 2023. Some political parties have called on INEC to disregard the accreditation system, while others are in support of the bi-modal biometric method. Here is a breakdown...