The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that over 170,000 polling unit results from the presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25 had been uploaded to its Result Viewing Portal (IReV). The electoral body added that the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) would be completed by Tuesday in time for the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections. This was announced on Sunday by the Commission’s National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics
Nigerian Electoral Body, INEC Confirms 170,000 Results Uploaded On IReV, Says BVAS Reconfiguration To Be Completed TuesdayThe electoral body added that the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems would be completed by Tuesday in time for the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections.
This was announced on Sunday by the Commission’s National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics“As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the BVAS for purposes of the governorship and state assembly elections, and any BVAS that was used for the presidential and National Assembly elections that do not push to the accreditation backend, the data relating to the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections will not be reconfigured.
He stated that INEC was the regulator of political parties and that the commission would not abdicate its primary responsibility to dissatisfied political parties. He stated that INEC learned"valuable lessons" from the presidential and National Assembly elections that would be applied to the governorship and state assembly elections.
The INEC commissioner continued: “The Electoral Act 2022 makes it clear that every registered political party in conjunction with their candidates have the right to send agents to every polling units in Nigeria. The PDP as a political party deployed a total of 176,588 polling agents. The Labour Party deployed a total of 134,874 polling agents. The NNPP deployed a total of 176,200 while the APC deployed a total of 176,223.
During the presidential and National Assembly elections, opposition parties were outraged that INEC officials at polling units were unable to electronically upload election results to the IReV, as required by Section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022. The parties fought against the manual collation of results and the announcement of poll winners.
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