The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that the results of Kogi State governorship elections slated for November 11 will be transmitted electronically directly from polling units to its server.
At a two-day media roundtable Engagement on the Kogi election Organized by the Independent Press Center, IPC in Abuja, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kogi, Prof. Gabriel Longpet, said the electronic transmission of the results will help to eliminate rigging, electoral fraud and other irregularities.
He assured that the issues of insecurity experienced in the 2019 governorship election have been critically addressed, assuring that the election will be by “the poll and not by the gun”.
“Of course, we will be transmitting the Kogi election electronically. A lot of infractions do happen between the polling units and the collation center; the transmission of the results through electronic methods will definitely prevent such issues of infractions from occurring.
“By the electoral acts, any results figures on form EC8A that appeared mutilated cannot be allowed. If results are transmitted electronically to the IREV, there will be no need for results to be hijacked in the first place, mutilated or changed,” he said.
In the same vein, the Chairman Board of the Electoral Institute (BEI), Prof. Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, at a lecture titled “The 2023 General Election: Lessons Learnt in Preparation for Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo States off Cycle Governorship Elections, assured that INEC will leverage on the lessons learned in the 2023 General Election to ensure that the Governorship Elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi are conducted in full compliance with the Electoral Legal Framework and in a free, fair, credible, inclusive and verifiable manner.
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