Tribunal Drama: INEC Officers Say Presidential Election Results Refuse To Upload To IREV

EKO HOT BLOG reports that three ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who were Presiding Officers for the Feb. 25 general election have testified in court that they were unable to upload the results of the presidential election to the IREV portal.

The three witnesses, Janet Turaki, Christopher Ardo and Victoria Sani, told the court that they were presiding officers in Yobe, Bauchi and Katsina states respectively.

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They all said that they were able to use the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine to transmit results for the senatorial and house of Representatives elections successfully.

However, they said that they were unable to use the BVAS to transmit the presidential election results.

Turaki said that she was able to successfully accredit voters and that voting went on smoothly at her polling unit. However, she said that when she attempted to upload the presidential election result after capturing it with the BVAS machine, the network went awry.

Ardo said that he felt unfulfilled in his assignment with INEC on the election day due to his inability to transmit the presidential election result as required by law.

Sani said that she believed that she performed her duties as a presiding officer to the best of her ability.

The five-member panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned proceedings until Tuesday for the continuation of the hearing in the petition.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Atiku and the PDP are before the court challenging the outcome of the Feb. 25 presidential election.

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One of the grounds of their petition is that INEC failed to transmit election results to its (INEC Result Viewing Portal, (IREV) in real-time as the Chairman, Mr Yakubu Mahmood had said it would before the election.

The court will continue to hear the case on Tuesday.

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