By Ayo Yusuf
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has dismissed reports that results of the November 11 off-cycle elections will be transmitted manually.
Reacting to contrary reports quoting the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Bayelsa State, the INEC Boss said results of the elections will be transmitted in accordance with the provisions of the law.
He said that accreditation for the election will be done using the BVAS machine before and after voting, saying it will be used to snap and upload the results in the INEC Election Result Viewing portal.
According to him: “Please disregard whatever anyone has said about the transmission of results”.
Prof. Yakubu also announced that all non sensitive materials for the off cycle elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States have been delivered to the various local government areas.
He said this while monitoring the Mock accreditation exercise in Lokoja, Kogi State at the LEA Primary School Ganaja in Ajaokuta Local Government Area.
He said the Commission was cognisant of the perennial flooding in the State and has made arrangements to move the polling units to a more secure environment in case of flooding during the elections
He also disclosed that the Commission intends to redistribute voters at the polling unit after the election in view of the large number of registered voters there.
According to him: “This is the polling unit with the largest number of registered voters in Nigeria with about 13,000 voters. So, we will be deploying eight BVAS machines to the polling units on election day.”
National Commissioner in charge of Kogi, Prof. Sani Adam, said the State was ready for the conduct of the governorship election.
