The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, has debunked the rumour that the Commission is planing to rig next year election by scraping the transmission of results to IReV Portal.
Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Educationmttee in a statement on Friday said the reports by some news outlets was false adding that there is no going back on the use of BVAS and IReV next year.
The statement titled” ALLEGED PLOT TO ABANDON THE TRANSMISSION OF POLLING UNIT RESULTS TO IREV PORTAL”
“Our attention has been drawn to reports in a section of the media of alleged plans by the Commission to rig the 2023 General Election by abandoning the direct and real-time electronic upload of polling unit results to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal by the Registration Area Technical Support Staff (RATECHSS),the statement read
“The claim is patently false. The Commission has repeatedly reassured Nigerians that it will transmit results directly from the polling units as we witnessed in Ekiti and Osun State Governorship elections and 103 more constituencies where off-cycle Governorship/FCT Area Council elections and bye-elections were held since August 2020. The results can still be viewed on the portal.
“The IReV is one of the innovations introduced by the Commission to ensure the integrity and credibility of election results in Nigeria. It is therefore inconceivable that the Commission will turn around and undermine its own innovations.”
The Commission urged Nigerians to disregard the report adding that BVAS and IReV have come to stay in the Nigeria electoral process.
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“The public is advised to ignore the reports. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and IReV have come to stay for voter accreditation and uploading of polling unit results in real-time in Nigeria,” he said