The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Joash Amupitan, has declared that there will be no manual accreditation during the Osun State governorship election, insisting that biometric verification through the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, remained the only statutory method for accrediting voters.
Amupitan made the declaration on Thursday in Osogbo during the formal signing of the Osun State Governorship Election Peace Accord ahead of the August 15, 2026 governorship poll.
The event was organised by the National Peace Committee, NPC, and attended by political parties, security agencies, traditional rulers and other stakeholders.
The INEC chairman assured residents that the commission had reached an advanced stage of preparedness for the election, stating that seven out of the nine activities in the election timetable had already been completed.
He disclosed that voting would take place across 30 local government areas, the Modakeke Area Office, 332 registration areas and 3,763 polling units.
According to him, “the certified register of voters, after the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) exercise, stands at 2,339,233 eligible voters while PVC collection at local government offices had been extended until Friday, 31 July, to enable more registered voters collect their cards before the election.”
Amupitan also addressed recent security incidents involving the theft of uncollected Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in Okuku, Odo-Otin Local Government Area, and Ife Central.
He assured the public that the stolen PVCs could not be used for voting because they require live biometric verification through BVAS before accreditation.
“Since biometric verification via the Bimodal Voter Accreditation
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