The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently introduced a dedicated portal to check election results uploaded from various polling units in real-time.
INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, had made the announcement in a statement on Thursday last week.
Okoye, who also appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, believes INEC should be commended for taking a step further to ensure transparency in its conduct of elections in the country.
He described the portal as a new step to further strengthen Nigeria’s election management process.
The portal, which was first used in the recently concluded Nasarawa Central Constituency election, would also be deployed in forthcoming governorship polls in Edo and Ondo States.
INEC had fixed September 19 and October 10 for the elections in Edo and Ondo, respectively.
The 10 easy ways to access election results on the portal have been highlighted below:
(Channeltv)
When it’s time for us to capitalize on the result checked from the portal, INEC will tell you the process has not gone through legislation. Last general elections INEC promised to display online result from their Portal, when it was time they said the National Assembly has not yet passed that into law, so it is illegal, that they will only depend on the manual result collated into the result sheet. We already know INEC will rig the elections, so there is no need to veer the masses into believing that whatever result found in the portal would be what INEC will announce. Develop a process where each vote cast will display on all electronic gadgets and in INEC portal not the result from the polling unit or collation centers alone. The possibility to doctor result at the collation center before sending it to INEC portal is very high and glaring. Leave Nigerian to a system where every of their vote cast would be seen by everyone. However, INEC, we know you have the tendency of rigging, please don’t rig the elections’ of these states.