The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed how polling unit results would be communicated during the gubernatorial and house of assembly elections.
Festus Okoye, Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, announced this on Arise TV on Friday.
Okoye stated that the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections taught INEC vital lessons.
He said, “The law as of today prescribes a dual mode of either transmission of results or transfer of results.”
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According to Okoye, when polling units closed, the Presiding Officer who oversaw the polling unit would input the scores of the various political parties in form EC8A, which is the polling unit level result.
He said, “The PO will sign that particular result sheet and stamp it, the PU agent or party agent if available will also countersign and copies will be given to them and the police.
“That original result will be what will be scanned and uploaded to our INEC Result Viewing Portal for public viewing. Not only that, the accreditation data that has arisen from that polling unit will also be uploaded, but the physical result and the BVAS itself will also be taken to the Registration Area Collation centre.”
He further indicated that the Collation Officer will have access to the original results and the BVAS, as well as the accreditation data as transmitted and the result sheet as transmitted by the polling unit.
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It is the dual manner authorized by law for the commission, and that is the mode we will utilize for the purposes of this election.
On real-time IREV delivery on Saturday, Okoye stated that results would be provided as soon as polling units closed.
Okoye said, “The commission is determined to improve on its previous performance. What we have done is to learn valuable lessons from previous elections that we conducted, and we’re going to put those lessons into our planning purposes and processes, and into our deployment purposes.”
“As of now, what we’re having is what we call state assembly and governorship elections,” Okoye said of the commission’s readiness.
“In all the states of the federation, both the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines and all the sensitive election materials have left the Central Bank and the various state offices of the federation.
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“We want to ensure that all polling units open on time. Secondly, we made sure that we reconfigured all the BVAS that will be used for this particular election in terms of making sure that the BVAS perform optimally and also making sure that some of the challenges we had in the previous elections do not reoccur.”
Okoye also stated that the electoral authority has provided refresher training to all kinds of workers involved in the polls.
“It’s a large election, and INEC will be paying very close attention to what’s going on in the various states,” he said, referring to the country’s 28 gubernatorial elections and 993 state assembly seat elections.
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