No Going Back On Electronic Transmission Of Election Results – INEC

The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) has stated that it’ll not return on the digital transmission of outcomes from polling models in future elections, until the Nationwide Meeting enacts a brand new legislation to cease it from doing so.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Ogun State, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, acknowledged this throughout a information convention on the state INEC headquarters in Abeokuta Thursday.

In accordance with Agbaje, who simply resumed within the state because the REC, the INEC already had sufficient legislation that capacitated it to transmit election outcomes electronically.

Agbaje stated: “We now have sufficient legislation that capacitated us to go forward but when the Nationwide Meeting says we can’t do it with the brand new committee that had been arrange, we’ll cease and that will probably be a brand new legislation.

“If they’re going to make a brand new legislation that may incapacitate us that will probably be too unhealthy.

“With the shout of Nigerians, non-governmental our bodies, the media and lots of different stakeholders, I imagine the Nationwide Meeting will do the suitable factor in order that INEC can go forward.

“If the Nationwide Meeting see that there’s any method that NCC might help, they need to inform the NCC. They’ve sufficient time to do this. They’ve a couple of and a half years to do neccessary issues earlier than the final election.

“We now have an understanding that if outcomes can’t be transmitted at a specific polling unit or location, resulting from community issues, they will transfer from the unit degree to ward degree the place there’s community and do it.

“Even earlier than the transmission, all of the occasion brokers would have the handbook copies of the outcomes.

“To the INEC, we’re very a lot prepared and we’ve got the capability to do it to the admiration of all Nigerians.

“The place we’ve got governorship election this 12 months, in Ekiti and Osun States subsequent 12 months, we’re going to do this if the Nationwide Meeting don’t cease us.

“It’s not solely within the southern a part of the nation that we’ve got been utilizing it. Within the Home of Representatives and Senate elections that we carried out, we’ve got used it and we will proceed to enhance on what we’ve got been doing.

“But when the Nationwide Meeting says we can’t do it, properly however for this coming election in Anambra later this 12 months, Ekiti and Osun election subsequent 12 months, we’re going to do it.”

Talking on the variety of eligible voters that participated within the Steady Voter Register (CVR) within the first quarter of the train, Agbaje stated the quantity recorded in Ogun State was decrease when put next with the determine recorded in different South-west states of Ekiti, Osun and Ondo and when the inhabitants is considered.

Giving the determine, the REC stated 414,928 individuals registered on-line in Osun, 55,099 in Ondo, 57,623 in Ekiti and 46,937 in Ogun State.

Explaining the precise variety of eligible voters that accomplished their registration through the interval, Agbaje stated 63,259 did in Osun, 20,632 in Ondo, 19,128 in Ekiti and 12,231 in Ogun.

He due to this fact urged stakeholders to assist sensitise the individuals on the necessity to come out enmasse and take part within the CVR, which is a steady train.