The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured that the days of manipulation of election results are over in Nigeria. The Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu spoke on Friday in Abuja at the Launch of the Election Results Analysis Dashboard (ERAD) Report on Electronic Transmission of Results organized by Yiaga Africa. “I can confidently say that the days of wanton manipulation of election results in Nigeria are over,” Prof. Yakubu said. The INEC boss said the breakthrough came with the new Electoral Act 2022, which empowered the Commission to adopt electronic means for both accreditation and results management, explaining that the persistence of the commission on electoral issues, especially in the management of results, is now well-expressed in the extant legal framework, administrative procedures and technological innovations it recently introduced.
“Yet, the commission is not resting on its oars, knowing that it must remain several steps ahead of those who seek to undermine the system. The importance of NEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) to the transparency of result management is obvious,” he added.
The chairman called on stakeholders to give support to the commission so as to improve IReV and the entire result management system towards the 2023 general election, which will be far more extensive than what had been done so far.
YIAGA Executive Director, Samson Itodo, disclosed that the ERAD was embedded in the election-day broadcast of Channels Television by tracking results from the polling units based on the commission’s own published results.
“The ERAD was piloted in the governorship election in Ekiti and used in Osun where all the results were downloaded from the iReV portal and 95 percent and 97 percent of the polling unit results were analyzed and visualized respectively. Millions of Nigerians across the globe followed the Channels TV broadcast, as the ERAD was the only platform that provided real-time visualized data of the election results,” Itodo said.
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