From Oyeronke Clarion
Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA) will on Saturday go to the polls to elect their union leaders.
The election was postponed in October 12, due to some hitches.
The Students Union Electoral Committee (SUELCO) Chairman Dr Stephen Aina, told CAMPUSLIFE that machinery had been put in place to ensure that hackers are dealt with.
He said only students who had paid their tuition could vote, adding that they should go to the polling booths with their ID cards.
Stephen said the new procedure was to forestall a re-occurrence of the hacking into the student election e-portal last year, which made it impossible for students to access the portal.
Aside that, the new procedure would guarantee a free and fair election, Aina promised, adding that it would also ensure the election outcome is not compromised.
He said: “When the election was initially held, it was a very serious issue as we discovered that the entire site was hacked to the extent that students didn’t even have network anywhere to vote. That has not happened before because we had already test run the site and it worked effectively.
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“Unfortunately, hackers gained access to the site, accessed the students ID and voted for their desired candidates. The site became so porous that it was vulnerable to abuse and manipulation. This prompted SUEC to shift the election and then we looked for appropriate time in which we could reschedule our own plans to have a better one.”
Ainaexplained that SUEC adopted the e-voting sustem, vowing that it would be internally controlled to ensure its sanctity.
On how to vote, he said: “Qualified students shall be given a PIN to login Immediately, the PIN and the identity of the aspirants will come up from the beginning to the end and they will be able to vote for the candidate of their choice.Thereafter, you click ‘submit’ button and go,” he added.
“Every financial student of this institution is eligible to vote. What to do is to screen voters with their ID card as students of this university.
The election time will come up between 9am and 4pm because we want all the students to be in the school premises. We are not taking any external voting this time around because we want a credible election that would be acceptable by all.”
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