The manner in which polling unit results will be disseminated throughout the federation’s states on Saturday has been described by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Festus Okoye, the chairman of the INEC Information and Voter Education Committee, stated on Arise TV on Friday that the commission has taken important lessons from the elections for the National Assembly and the presidential inauguration on February 25.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress was declared the winner by the commission, but it was reported that controversy followed INEC’s failure to upload results as soon as possible during the presidential election. Major opposition parties like the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour party held on to this as one of the bases for rejecting the presidential poll result.
“As of now, the legislation mandates either results transfer or results transmission,” Okoye stated.
The Presiding Officer, who oversaw the polling unit, would input the results of the various political parties in form EC8A, which is the polling unit level result, when the polls at each unit closed, according to what he said.