The Independent National Electoral Commission seems to have learnt valuable lessons from the 2023 general elections, particularly in its deployment of technology for Saturday’s off-season elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States.
According to a checked by THE WHISTLER at 8:30pm on Saturday (election day) showed a significant improvement from what was achieved during the presidential polls in terms of result uploaded on INEC’s Result Viewing Portal (IReV).
For Bayelsa State, results for 1,788 polling units out of the 2242 polling units where elections were held had been uploaded on the IReV portal. This represents 79.68% of the total election results.
Similarly in Imo state, INEC has uploaded 81.57% of the total results with 3,881 out of 4,720 polling units electronically transmitted.
In Kogi State, the commission had uploaded 76.20% of total results with 2,673 out of 3,508 polling units available on the IReV portal.
We also observed that access to the results viewing portal was open and available to anyone with an active internet connection.
Recall that this website had reported the failure of the commission to upload results on the Inec Result Viewing portal (IReV) during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in February.
However, had shown that no result was uploaded on the portal as at 9:55pm on the election day.
