Head of Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said the commission will continue to get election results transmitted electronically.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned Yakubu said this on Wednesday during the visit of a delegation of officials of the Media Trust Group (owners of Daily Trust newspapers and Trust TV) to his office.
Yakubu submitted that the electoral body would continue to transmit election results electronically.
Media Trust Group is organizing a series of debates for presidential and governorship candidates ahead of the next year’s general election, and the programme is called ‘Media Trust Nigeria Election Debate 2023’.
Yakubu told the delegation that the transmission of elections results from the polling units (PUs) would be a permanent feature in the nation’s electoral process.
‘Yes, it is going to be permanent in all elections conducted by the commission going forward. But I wish to draw your attention to the fact that we did not start the electronic transmission, at least, from the polling units to the IReV Portal, in Anambra or FCT elections.
It was actually on August 2020 that we deployed that for the Nasarawa Central State Constituency by-election, the first election conducted under COVID-19. So, if you look at the IReV Portal, you could see all the results from the 2020 to the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections and all the other by-elections we conducted’ Yakubu said.
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One of the key provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 law is the deployment of technology in the election process.
Section 52(2) of the Act says: ‘Subject to Section 63 of this bill, voting at an election and transmission of results under this bill shall be in accordance with the procedure determined by the commission (INEC), which may include electronic voting’.
Commenting about pending by-elections at some constituencies in the country, Yakubu said there were 27 pending by-elections across the country.
He said the commission would conduct the elections once issues centering on court cases and insecurity in some of the affected constituencies were resolved- Team@orientactualmags.com
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