 Let's talk about the 2023 elections reports that we here right now you know suggest that the elections just might be canceled over time you know several offices of the independent national electoral commission you know have suffered a lot of attacks you know so did it really come to to you as a surprise with this recent information? Not at all but I think perhaps as a nation we don't really learn from history because if you recall in 2015 we had similar occurrences building up to the elections you know to the general elections with the then incumbent president former president Goodluck a billionaire you know even if you recall perfectly the election had to be shifted about twice before the final conduct of the election then in 2015 but again eight years after we are still at the same junction or the same juncture as a nation tackling insecurity and barely two months after barely two months the general elections we are still talking about possibility of the elections being actually shifted or outrightly canceled because like I mentioned earlier we don't learn as a nation it's not it is actually not the constitutional duty of INEC to put security apparatus in place in fact based on the constitution of the federal public of Nigeria the sole responsibility of government particularly the federal government is to ensure the security of lives and properties of every Nigerian so I think like I mentioned earlier if after eight years and this is something that we've been grappling about uh from time immemorial you know that we are still struggling with the fact that two months to the election uh we are still talking about the election being canceled or postponed then we have not learned and this is this this has a serious uh uh dent to our uh not fledging democracy I will say our democracy is fledging now it's more than I think it's about more than 20 years now so it it means we should have learned vital lessons on how to secure our democracy so I think the federal government uh without minding what is failing in this regard so many INEC offices have been bombed across the country particularly in the southeast and southwest of Nigeria you know uh even though you give kudos to INEC you know for for taking even the pvcs to the doorsteps of Nigerians to to get their pvcs in recent times you know but how do people how are people assured and secured to go out and vote if uh insecurity persists I think the federal government needs to fit up and ensure that the forthcoming election does not have any resemblance of postponement or cancellation like you said indeed we had like eight years to perfect all of the mistakes that we've had over time in elections that we have had you know so the commission has actually assured Nigerians that either come february the elections would hold despite all of these heaches no and the whole lot now behoves on the security apparatus of the nation the police the nscdc uh the dss and all that what should they be doing that this and in the immediate because of this uh threat because the issues of unbounded tree and of course attacks and kidnappings are actually just increasing by the day yes um like you rightly mentioned it behoves on the federal government and particularly the security agencies that we've rarely mentioned the dss the police the military and all the apparatus of government impact in particular to uh put uh the security check in place um i want to give um uh uh the the nigerian military or particularly the nigerian security agencies the benefit of the doubt for instance uh i think a week ago or about two weeks ago i see the nigerian military uh launching del sat one uh i think a very important technology you know uh an innovation in ensuring that uh the nigerian state is being particularly policed uh from uh the air from the satellite so i think this will go a long way in in even though it's in a short run i don't see the possibility of that uh technology assisting uh with the conduct of the election because it's a very short while but i i mean in the long run this is something that we should have put in place uh a long time before now because i tell you uh the manual way i mean the the like i keep like like i like i tell my friends in our circles the sustainability ways that we that we seem to uh do our things in this part of the world is no longer acceptable and we must employ technology at every real time that is just the easiest way to do things because when you if even if you put on uh a million soldiers across the country come on nigeria is a very big country you know so how how many of our security agencies i mean manually can man security uh can can man polling stations man the streets and so on and so forth but with the with technology these things are far easier and you put less body in even on the on the on the on the on the on the people so i think we should employ technology there are so much there are so many technology out there that the military and the security authorities can employ you know to Muhammad but just before just before we'll let you go because of time now Muhammad now with all that is happening from the forego you know with the security threats as it were and the issues of uh uncollected PVCs would you really say or how would raise uh the preparedness of the independence national electoral commission for the election no i think the the INEC is preparing very well like i mentioned earlier uh this week the INEC have even uh launched an initiative of taking the PVCs to the dust types of vegetarians i see the PVCs are being taken to primary schools uh close up to the people uh and is a is a welcome development because you know uh in in the past people have to uh Nigerians have to go to INEC offices to collect their PVCs would become uh very cumbersome and a very tiring uh effort but now you know uh i think the next one week or so INEC have announced that people can uh go to the nearest uh probably primary schools and so on and so forth nearest them to collect their PVCs is a very welcome initiative and it behoves on Nigerians to take advantage of this uh good initiative or INEC all right thank you so much uh uh Muhammad Abdullah public affairs analyst thanks for all of the insights that you have shared concerning INEC's preparation and the the talk of uh integrity threatening the polls we do appreciate your time 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