It is unfair to judge us because of a problem uploading glitch - INEC

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigerians should not judge them based on a glitch in the upload of the nationwide presidential election that took place on February 25.

According to Barry Andrews, the chief observer for the EU, the public's confidence in INEC suffered greatly during the February 25 election due to the commission's operational failures and lack of transparency. Andrews said a few restorative estimates presented in the Walk 18 governorship decisions appeared to have had a beneficial outcome however generally speaking, trust was not reestablished and this prompted common social orders to require a free review of the whole cycle. Six priority recommendations were made by the EU observation team.

While responding to the last report on the 2023 general decisions presented by the European Association Political race Perception Mission on Monday, June 26, INEC Public Chief, Festus Okoye, encouraged Nigerians not to pass judgment on the electing domain because of the test the commission experienced in the transfer of the official political race.

He said:

“It is not fair to judge the entire performance of the commission on the basis of a glitch in the result upload for the presidential election.”

Okoye claims that the law has granted political parties the ability to monitor activities at polling places.

He added:

“Almost all the political parties nominated and got accredited at least over 170,000 polling agents. What that means is that they had primary evidence of the results from the polling units. It is those results from the polling units, together with the BVAS as a machine itself that goes to the collation centre. So, it is not true for a political party to rely only on result upload in order to get the evidence with which it wants to prosecute its case in court.”