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Prof Mahmood Yakubu
3 weeks after the 2023 presidential election that saw the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu emerged as the winner of the poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to upload all the election results.
Checks showed a total of 166,656 results from 176, 846 polling units, representing 94:24 percent have been uploaded on the IReV portal.
This comes following INEC’s failure to electronically transmit results to its viewing portal despite promising the electorates before the poll.
For some analysts, INEC’s behaviour contradicts Section 60 of the country’s Electoral Act which mandated that INEC officials must upload results immediately once they are collated.
The portal, known as INEC Rev, was designed by the commission for presiding officers to upload results from polling units.
Meanwhile, INEC has been uploading results from the just-concluded gubernatorial and State Assembly election in 28 States of the federation.
As of the time of filing this report, results are being uploaded in the IReV portal in real-time.(Nigerian Tribune)