The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recently cited technical glitches as a reason for the delay in the uploading of election results.
INEC’s commissioner of information and voter education Festus Okoye in a statement released on Sunday stated that, unlike the off-season elections, the portal has been relatively slow and unsteady.
He however expressed regrets for any setbacks it has caused, due to how important the IRev is in the election results management process.
“The problem is totally due to technical glitches related to scaling up of the IReV from a platform for managing off-season, state elections to one for managing of nationwide general elections. It is indeed not unusual for glitches to occur and be corrected in such situations.”
He further gave the assurance that the delays are not due to any sabotage of the INEC systems, noting that the IRev remains well-secured.
“We also wish to assure Nigerians that results from the Polling unit copies of which were issued to political parties are safe on both the BVAS and the IReV portal.
“These results cannot be tampered with, and any discrepancy between them and the physical results used in collation will be thoroughly investigated and remediated, in line with Section 65 of the Electoral Act 2022,” he added.
He concluded that the commission’s technical team is working effortlessly to solve all the outstanding problems, as users of the IReV would have noticed improvements since.
The delay in uploading the election results has caused so much frustration among Nigerians, which has seen most of them take to social media to express their anger.
While many have urged INEC to upload the results on the IRev as quickly as possible, reports reveal that most results of several polling units across the country were not uploaded almost 24 hours later.
Despite the claims of INEC that the results will not be sabotaged, many have speculated that the delay could be a means to tamper with the results.
