The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it
has rectified the issues with the result viewing portal.
The IReV portal was part of the technologies introduced by
the commission to improve the transparency of the electoral process.
The commission had previously assured that polling unit
results would be uploaded to the portal in real time during the presidential
election which held on February 25.
The portal was, however, inactive for a long time, even after voting had ended in some polling units and as at the time of this report, not all results have been uploaded.
Speaking on Sunday when he featured on Channels Television’s
‘Sunday Politics’, Festus Okoye, INEC national commissioner, acknowledged that
there were challenges with the portal on election day.
He said necessary adjustments have been made to the portal
to ensure optimal function during the governorship and state assembly polls of
March 18.
“There is no technology that does not have challenges. Yes,
we promised that results will be uploaded in real time to our result viewing
portal, but there were challenges. We already explained to Nigerians that these
glitches happen, we didn’t anticipate that we’re going to have these
challenge,” he said.
“Whatever challenges we recorded, we have made very serious
efforts to rectify them so that during the governorship and state assembly
elections, we won’t record the same issues going forward.
“We have rectified the challenges we experienced during the
presidential and national assembly polls.
“No national commissioner of the commission was happy with
what happened. This is because this commission has been built around serving
the people of this country. We had situations where even corps members were
held hostage in polling units.”
Okoye said the electoral body has activated a second option
in the event of a challenge with uploading of results.
“So we have made the necessary amendments, we have learned
the necessary lessons from this and we have also activated an option B in terms
of how we approach the issue of result upload,” he said.
“We are confident that the portal will not fail. If we have
any challenge relating to the uploading of polling unit results, the ICT knows
what to do so that we don’t have the type of challenge we had during the
presidential election.”
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