The Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed the condition under which election
results can only be transmitted electronically.
INEC’s Director of Publicity,
Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi disclosed that there might be a theoretical transmission of
election results electronically.
Appearing on Channel’s Television
programme, Politics Today, Osaze-Uzzi said Nigerian law does not support the
theoretical transmission of election results.
He insisted that the electronic
transmission of results was not immune to manipulation as it can also be
manipulated by those whose aim is to undermine results.
The INEC spokesperson stressed
that the most important part of an election process was the actual voting and
direction of result.
He said: “Theoretically, in our
elections, you can transmit the results electronically. But the law in Nigeria
does not allow for that.
“If Nigerians want that to
happen, then you can do that. But that does not mean it will not be susceptible
to manipulation by people who are interested in manipulating the process.
“That is the building for the
very foundation. If that is not right, others are not right. Even if INEC gets
the collation wrong which it should not, there is a process by which, for
example it is challenged, it goes back to the commission.”
This is coming at a time when the
2019 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku
Abubakar had claimed that results of the last presidential poll were
transmitted to INEC server electronically.
But, this was severally denied by
the country’s electoral umpire which dared Atiku to provide evidence backing up
his allegation.
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