Connect with us

    Hi, what are you looking for?

    Politics

    It’s unfair to judge us for result upload glitch – INEC

    INEC

    Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that Nigerians should not judge the commission based on the glitch experienced in the upload of the February 25 presidential election held across the country.

    The EU chief Observer, Barry Andrews, said public confidence in INEC was severely damaged in the February 25 Felection due to the commission’s operational failures and lack of transparency.

    Andrews said some corrective measures introduced in the March 18 governorship elections seemed to have had a positive effect but overall, trust was not restored and this led to civil societies to call for an independent audit of the entire process. The EU observation team made 6 priority recommendations.

    While reacting to the final report on the 2023 general elections submitted by the European Union Election Observation Mission on Monday, June 26, INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, urged Nigerians not to judge the electoral empire as a result of the challenge the commission experienced in the upload of the presidential election.

    “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,” he said.

    According to Okoye, the law has empowered political parties to know what goes on at the polling units.

    “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,” he added

    Spread the love
    Click to comment

    Leave a Reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    ad

    You May Also Like

    Opinion

    By Linda Saunders, Country Manager & Senior Director Solution Engineering, Africa, Salesforce In a time of rising global economic uncertainty, African businesses are increasingly...

    Tech

    In a powerful display of public-private synergy, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Deputy Governor Dr. Obafemi Hamzat visited the MTN Data Centre booth...

    Broadcasting

    Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, has awarded damages of more than R2.6 million to the girlfriend of a Nigerian citizen who was suffocated to d3ath...

    News

    The Enugu State Government has accused Olasijibomi Ogundele, CEO of Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited, of defrauding the state of N5.7 billion paid for the...