An Abuja based legal practitioner, Ismaeel Ahmed on Friday expressed his reservation over the planned introduction of the electronic voting system by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Mr Ahmed, who was a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, said though the E-voting system is a good idea, it will be hard to implement it in a place like Nigeria where most people cannot “differentiate between a television screen and a computer monitor.”
Speaking on the ability of the E-voting system in reducing electoral fraud, the lawyer said “computers do not operate themselves,” but obey commands from human operators who without sincerity can choose to manipulate the system for selfish purposes.
Watch the video below for other reservations Mr Ahmed expressed over the E-voting system.
