Yabagi Sani, chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council
(IPAC), says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to tell
Nigerians what went wrong with the result viewing portal (IReV) during the
presidential and national assembly polls.
The commission had assured Nigerians that polling unit
results would be uploaded to the portal in real-time during the general election
to improve the transparency of the electoral process.
But the portal was inactive for a long time, even after
voting had ended in some polling units.
Subsequently, there were speculations that the IReV was
hacked but INEC said the portal only had technical hitches.
Speaking on Sunday when he was featured on Channels
Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’, Sani the situation is “fishy” and must be
looked into.
“INEC is yet to come out to tell Nigerians what happened so
that the trust Nigerians had for them will come back. If INEC had come back to
say the system was hacked, this is not the first system that will be hacked,
the most sophisticated systems in the world have been hacked, that’s not
something that people will say cannot happen,” he said.
“Some people may ask why they didn’t make redundancy factors
into their servers so that when this one fails, another will seamlessly take
over and we will not suffer this kind of unnecessary disaster that we are in
today.
“It beats my
imagination that they said they were just relying on one system with no backup
in such a very high stake environment.
“My grouse with INEC is not coming out to tell us the truth,
that this is what happened. But Festus Okoye only said they know what happened
and have rectified it but what happened?
“It was a selective failure in the elections, the
transmission as far as senate and house of representatives was going on
smoothly. Why was it presidential that wasn’t going on smoothly? Something wrong
and fishy is there. We must get to the root of what happened.”
The IPAC chairman said INEC should take advantage of the
forthcoming governorship and state assembly polls to redeem its image.
“INEC should take
advantage of this second chance they have to redeem their image because they
have an image that is not too good as it is today. And I think if it’s about
the technical aspect of the exercise, what INEC needs to do is to address the
redundancy in the link,” he said.
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