Ahead of the November 11 governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states, the National National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu has assured that election results would be transmitted electronically.
TheHintsNews reports that the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Ofiong Efanga, recently at a recent press conference said that the commission would adopt manual mode of transmission of the governorship election results.
However, the INEC Chairman during the monitoring of the mock election in Lokoja, Kogi state said whatever the Bayelsa said must be disregarded.
Yakubu reiterated that the governorship election in the three states would be conducted in line with the dictate of the Electoral Act.
His words: “The method is as provided by law — electronic accreditation, electronic upload of results on the INEC Results Viewing (IReV) portal, and that is why we are doing this mock.
“So please, disregard whatever was reported about what the REC was said to have said in Bayelsa and that is going to be the procedure. And it is for that reason that I will advise you also for those who have registered on the IReV portal, in the next two hours or so, they should go to the IReV portal, they see the result of the mock from all the three states, we are uploading, as we have done in previous elections.”
The chairman also revealed that the security agencies have given assurances of adequate security on election day.
He added: “Well, so far so good in terms of assurance from the security agencies as we can see, they’re even here for the mock and next week, Friday, there is going to be a high level meeting in Abuja, chaired by myself and the National Security Adviser in which all the security chiefs will be present, no representation to discuss the issue of security for the three states so we are on top of the situation in terms of security arrangement and security deployment.”