The Independent National Electoral Commission must electronically transmit the results of the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections on Saturday in accordance with the rules and directives of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which issued the ruling on Friday.
In a ruling, Judge Obiora Egwuatu also mandated the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System to send a scanned copy of the form EC8A to the INEC Result Viewing Portal as soon as all of Akwa Ibom’s polling units had completed voting.
After finalizing the EC8A result sheets for the state, the judge further instructed the commission to prominently paste the publication of its result posters, EC60(E), at polling places.
He also directed INEC to use the services of impartial, capable, and dependable logistic companies that are neither partisans nor well-known supporters of any political party in order to enforce the compliance with Section 27(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022 in the distribution of electoral materials and personnel during the conduct of the polls in the state.
