Recalled when two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) told the Presidential Election Petitions Court that they could not upload the February 25 presidential election results on the Result Viewing Portal (IReV) even though they were able to upload the Senatorial and House of Representatives results on the portal.
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says there is no discrepancy in the fact that it uploaded other election results on its portal but failed to upload the presidential election results, adding that political parties had agents at the polling units and were not supposed to rely on results uploaded on INEC Results Viewing Portal.
“What that means is that each political parties have primary evidence at the polling unit of those results. So, I find it slightly difficult to understand why they are relying on the results from the IReV,” said Festus Okoye, the spokesperson for INEC, when asked to explain the “discrepancy” in the commission uploading other election results on its portal but failing to upload the February 25 presidential election result on the server.
He added, “It’s not a discrepancy. We explained to Nigerians that there were challenges with uploaded presidential election results. The commissioner said there was a glitch in terms of uploading result of the election,” Mr Okoye said.
The INEC official stressed that the “upload of results of election into INEC Result portal was to build public trust and for the public to follow what goes on during election process.”