"Don't Rely On Results Posted On IREV" INEC Tells Labour Party, Others

 

Spokesperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Festus Okoye has spoken against political parties who keep making reference to results posted on IREV and not the ones released by their agents.

While being interviewed by Channels Television presenter Seun Okinbaloye, Okoye was unable to explain to the audience what exactly was the reason the presidential election result wasn't uploaded on the IREV portal.

Okoye spoke against claims of certain members of the public who are of the opinion that the electoral body mismanaged public funds meant for the organisation of the elections. He said that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) was successfully used in the accreditation of voters and uploading of results.

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“It is not fair to judge the entire performance of the commission on the basis of a glitch in the result upload for the presidential election.

“Almost all the political parties nominated and got accredited at least over 170,000 polling agents. What that means is that they had primary evidence of the results from the polling units.

“It is those results from the polling units, together with the BVAS as a machine itself that goes to the collation centre. So, it is not true for a political party to rely only on result upload in order to get the evidence with which it wants to prosecute its case in court.” Okoye said.