POSTS RESULTS FROM ALL POLLING UNITS ON IREV

 

About 170,000 polling unit results from the February 25 presidential and national assembly elections have been published, according to the Independent National Election Commission on Sunday.

INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, stated this on Channels Television’s Programme, Sunday Politics.

As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems for the governorship and state assembly elections. However, any BVAS used for the presidential and national assembly elections that does not push to the accreditation backend will not have its data related to the conduct of those elections reconfigured.

In fact, if all of the data is not pushed to the accreditation backend, the BVAS won't permit itself to be changed or reset.

This is done in order for the results from every location where polls were held to have been pushed to the accreditation backend by Tuesday, when we hope to finish resettling the BVAS for the purposes of the gubernatorial and state assembly elections.

Every Nigerian, according to Okoye, has a legal and constitutional right to demonstrate. No political party, he added, will be permitted to examine voter biometrics or the brain of the BVAS.

He pointed out that INEC regulates political parties and that the commission won't deviate from its primary duty in favor of wronged political parties.

He said that only the people who went to court were affected by the court's ruling that voters could cast ballots using their temporary voter cards.

The INEC commissioner also attributed the poor voter turnout at the most recent election to political parties making polling places "inaccessible" to voters.

Every Nigerian, according to Okoye, has a legal and constitutional right to demonstrate. No political party, he added, will be permitted to examine voter biometrics or the brain of the BVAS.

He pointed out that INEC regulates political parties and that the commission won't deviate from its primary duty in favor of wronged political parties.

He said that only the people who went to court were affected by the court's ruling that voters could cast ballots using their temporary voter cards.

The INEC commissioner also attributed the poor voter turnout at the most recent election to political parties making polling places "inaccessible" to voters.

He stated that INEC would use some "important lessons" it had acquired from the presidential and National Assembly elections to the gubernatorial and state assembly elections. 

He claimed that serious efforts are being made to address issues with the IReV portal in advance of the March 18 elections, and he added that the commission's ICT department is aware of what to do in the event that there are problems with the uploading of polling unit results on the IReV portal during the March 18 elections.

 According to him, political parties used more polling unit agents than the Commission did, and they kept track of their results by polling unit as a result. The Electoral Act 2022 makes it explicit that each registered political party and its candidates have the right to participate in the election, according to the INEC commissioner.

"As a political party, the PDP sent out a total of 176,588 poll workers. Total poll workers employed by the Labour Party were 134,874. The APC deployed a total of 176,223, compared to 176,200 for the NNPP.

"The commission made its way to 176,666 voting locations. So, there were more agents sent by the political parties to the polling places than there were polling places that were actually open. That indicates that every political party received a copy of Form EC 8, the polling unit result sheet that is posted onto the IReV system, he continued.

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