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How Bayelsa, Kogi Elections Results Will Be Transmitted - INEC

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday said it will transmit all results manually during the Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections on Nov.16.

The Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu stated this at the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room Dialogue Session with Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) of Kogi and Bayelsa states in Abuja.

 

Prof. Yakubu who was represented by Mr. Festus Okoye, a national commissioner of INEC, said that the commission would adhere to the rules and regulations of the 2010 electoral act as amended.

 

“While section 52, subsection 2 of the electoral act gives the commission the discretion to make a determination relating to the procedure to adopt in any election, Sections 63,64,65,66,67 and 73 of the same electoral act prescribed the mode of transmission of election results and it is manually.

 

“So, we are going to conform to the provisions of the electoral act as amended and also conform to provisions about regulations and guidelines in relations to the transmission of the election results in the spirit of the law.”

 

Yakubu, however, reiterated that the commission would deploy and use the smart card readers for the purposes of verification and authentication of voters during the elections.

 

He said that the process was part of the commission’s guidelines and part of the accreditation process. He warned that the ad hoc staff found wanting in the last general elections had been barred from the commission and handed over to law enforcement agencies for prosecution.

 

Issues relating to the transmission of results formed part of the presidential election petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The opposition party had claimed that INEC transmitted the result of the last election electronically to a server hosted at the Headquarters of the Commission. The petitioners further held that figures obtained from the controversial server indicated that they won the election.

 

INEC however denied the existence of the purported server adding that results in the last elections were transmitted manually.

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