Nigeria, Nov. 2 -- Femi Adesina, a media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, has debunked the president's alleged role in the plot against the use of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation Machine System (BIVAS) in the 2023 general elections.

Mr Adesina said his principal remains a supporter of the innovative machine and has no reason to remove the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, as suggested by some media reports.

He said this in Abuja on Tuesday, during his address at a "Policy Dialogue on Media, Civil Society and Violence-free Election in Nigeria."

The event, which is in commemoration of the 2022 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, re-established the reality of threats to press freedom in Nigeria and beyond, e...