 And we're back with the ballot 2023, looking at all of that report right there. We're going to be connecting with, you know, some of our reporters on the field this morning, but just before then we get back to our guesting studio. We're still talking about, you know, the issue of security. We're talking about the innovation. Now one of the things that a lot of persons, I mean, they work hand in hand, you know, however you want to look at it. But we're looking at the fact that INEQ has been very, very positive about this one, even though a lot of persons still express doubts and do not, you know, believe in the entire system for whatever reason. But one of the highlights and the high points of this election is the introduction of this technology, which, you know, my colleague here has mentioned. That's the beavers. And so we talked about it. But I want to also cast our minds back, you know, to every other time that we had introduced technology, a bit of it to our electoral process. Now, if you remember vividly, in 2007, we had introduced, you know, that technology, the INEQ introduced a technology direct data capture method for voter registration for the elections that held in that time. Now, the essence of this DDC was that it was going to eliminate double registration, double voting, and other electoral practices. That's on the one hand. We also know what happened, but you know, at the end of that, let me, so let's come to the elections, that 2007 polls was widely criticized and pronounced as fraudulent by local and international observers. There were short comments. That was not the case. The essence of that technology was defeated. So again, people are still asking several questions. As much as that sounds very fantastic, we look at it very logical explanation and what have you, we still ask again. Don't you think that there's any, you know, situation that these can and might fail, making also reference to the ocean state elections with the overvoting? How did that happen? On the rage voters, can, you know, the beavers also, you know, cop that? Michael Jackson, MC Alma used to vote in Nigeria. Do you know that? I'm listening to you. Michael Jackson, MC Alma, Bobby Moore, they used to vote in Nigeria and understood. From the moment the permanent voters card and the card reader was introduced in a country where a precedent in 2003, on which a new ambassador had more votes supposedly cast in Ogun state, more than the total number of registered voters in Ogun state. When we go to the Supreme Court, the justices, nine justices of the Supreme Court, all agreed that that was a major aberration. But they said the number of the votes cast when removed from the total number of the valid votes would not vitiate the district. But that was in itself a travesty. It was the introduction of technology, permanent voters card and card readers that for the first time in the political state of Nigeria, unlike what I told you happened to me in 1983, you never ever again after PVC and card readers were introduced, you never ever again have any polling unit, registering 100% voter turnout. You see how good technology can be? It will not take you to Nevada or El Dorado in one round, but it will move you from position, what ostensible position in the direction of progress. I am not sitting there, considering not to want to believe that beavers will be, beavers will be the ultimate solution to the perversion in our electoral system. However, the use of technology will always move us in the right direction because even in the OSHO, madam, that you refer to, add earlier, refer to the fact that your showcase became easy for the complainants to prove because inevitably in digitalia, anything where you employ digital technology, you will always get what they call the digital footprint. My sister, if we were to be reduced to using papers alone, you know why some of us can paint vehemently? For the exclusive use, exclusive being the strategic idea, for the exclusive use of technology was because even with the ostensible improvements that we saw, that we got when PVC, many voters card and candidates were introduced, the electoral act gave the option that in case those things failed, they could resort to paperwork. And you know what usually happens to paperwork, the political magic comes out. So at this juncture, madam, I want to agree with you as a man who should be sober enough to know that there is no permanent solution to the mischief of man on the face of the earth. It's just that- Nigerian inclusive. On the face of the earth. No, I want us to be very inclusive. However, let me give you a typical example. A very close business partner of mine and a friend of mine had his, he couldn't find his pad, you know, he couldn't find it. And I was telling people, I was wondering whether I took it home yesterday or I said, Kenny, why are you behaving like this? Look at the CCTV cameras in our office. And you know what? You know what? When he called one of our junior managers in the office and they examined the CCTV cameras, he noticed that his driver peaked. When his driver was peaking, is this thing. The driver also peaked the pad. And you know what? The driver denied that it was not himo, it was not himo. Less than one, less than one month after, another item was found in his hand that was not given to him. Another item was actually found by somebody close to him being sold and recognized that this was theirs. And when the challenge, the person said the driver gave it to him. That was why he lost his job. The good thing about technology is that it at least gives you an evidential proof for something that somebody could have liked easily about. And that is the perfect example of a shoe. A shoe may have shown the lacuna, or lacunae, in the use of these so-called beavers. But it was ultimately the recordings, the recordings of beavers that gave the complainant the opportunity to prove that something inconsistent with normalcy happened in Shampoong Boots. Yeah, let's not sound pessimistic. But there's this report that has been making the rounds that a particular presidential candidate and his deputy made some comments. And now the argument is that, where they're doctored, technology also can be doctored in such a way that the results that you desire may not come out as you wanted, because someone has touched it. Like you said, there's nothing that you can do to stop the mischievousness of medicine. As somebody who is an avid follower of technology, who reads copiously on technology, the good thing about the valid point you just made down is that there is a part of technology that is called forensic technology. Doctored evidences and materials can be examined by experts. I tell my friends, I was talking with a friend one day, and I said, you don't be very careful. Somebody could send you a picture of your wife being naked and doing something untoward with another man. Be very careful. Technology has given that this to now. However, technology will also help to resolve the mischief of those who may want to employ technology for a dubious purpose, because there is that forensic element to it. Technology is not God. It's only God that is only sent. However, given the fact that, and this is what we were arguing for, the intensification of the use of technology being countenanced by the electoral law, we kept giving the examples to those who cared to listen, especially legislators. If you could sit in the green chamber or the red chamber of the National Assembly and remember that, oh, madam asked me for some change before I left home this morning, and you pick your phone. And your sweat, do you know that your sweat, your blood is actually denominated in your bank savings? So if you could have the faith in technology to say, OK, she asked me for this transfer money, we put it down, and we are following this again. That's the power of technology. I tell people, the most credible database in Nigeria today is the Vivian database. You know why? Because the banks will not let you have two fingerprints recorded against your name. My brother, we know that in other spheres of life, databases may be compromised due to our passports as somebody who is well-traveled. Our passports in the last 10 years have been more respected internationally because we were gradually and fastly going biometric. They know that it used to be, before I left Mushi to go to hand up in the diaspora about something years ago, I must have collected passports up to seven or eight times because of the rejection of the American Embassy, the United Kingdom Embassy. Before somebody ultimately helped me, got a German visa. OK, yeah, we want to connect with an INEG observer. And his name is Ghidardo Yolde. If he's ready now, let's get to know what is going on right now. Ghidardo, good morning. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.