On Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced that its Result Viewing Portal had received over 170,000 polling unit results from the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on February 25.
Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner, made this statement on Sunday Politics on Channels Television.
“As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems for the governorship and state assembly elections. Any BVAS used for the Presidential and National Assembly elections that does not push to the accreditation backend will not have their data reconfigured.
“In point of fact, if the entire data is not pushed to the accreditation backend, the BVAS will not permit itself to be reconfigured or reset.
“I’m certain that by Tuesday when we desire to finish the resettling of the BVAS for the reasons for the governorship and state gathering races, the outcomes in every one of the spots where decisions were directed would have been pushed to the certification backend.”
According to Okoye, every Nigerian possesses the constitutional and legal right to demonstrate. However, he stated that no political party will be permitted to investigate the BVAS’s brain or voter biometrics.
He mentioned that INEC is the political party regulator and that the commission will not delegate its primary responsibility to harmed political parties.
He stated that the ruling of the court that voters can use their temporary voter cards to vote does not apply to all Nigerians; rather, it applies only to those who went to court.
Related Information An Election Poll: The INEC commissioner also blamed political parties for making polling units “inaccessible” for voters, which resulted in low voter turnout at the most recent polls. “I’m challenging the process, not the outcome,” says Obi. The BVAS reset ends today, and INEC promises to transmit the results. “There is no going back on the nationwide protest,” says LP.
He said that the presidential and National Assembly elections taught INEC some “valuable lessons” that would be used in the governorship and state assembly elections.
He said that serious efforts are being made to fix problems with the IReV portal before the elections on March 18. He also said that the ICT department of the commission knows what to do if there are problems uploading results from polling units to the IReV portal on March 18.
He stated that political parties monitored their results per polling unit because they employed more agents for polling units than the Commission did.
The commissioner of INEC stated, “The Electoral Act 2022 makes it clear that every registered political party in Nigeria has the right to send agents to every polling unit in conjunction with their candidates.”
A total of 176,588 poll workers were employed by the PDP as a political party. There were a total of 134,874 poll workers employed by the Labour Party. There were a total of 176,223 APC troops and 176,200 NNPP troops deployed.
“The commission went to 176,666 voting locations. In this way, the ideological groups sent a greater number of specialists to the surveying units than the quantity of surveying units that opened. That indicates that each political party received a copy of Form EC 8, which is the polling unit result sheet that is uploaded to the IReV portal.