A former Director of Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, on Tuesday, said electronic collation of results for the 2023 general elections was not compulsory.
Osaze-Uzzi, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics
Today, said the prescribed mode of collating results is manual.
Making reference to Section 64 (4) of the Electoral Act, the
former INEC spokesman said section empowers the electoral commission to start
collating the result upon verification and confirmation of the result.
“The prescribed mode is the manual collation; it didn’t say
you should collate electronically. There is nowhere in the law, guidelines you
will see electronic (collation of result),” he stated.
“Go back to (Section) 64 (4). Verification and confirmation,
that is what is required with the electronically transmitted. But collation is
still manual.
“Before you start that process, you must go to the
electronic ones and say ‘Are these figures consistent?’ It doesn’t say to start
collating from the BVAS, transmitted results. It says to start collation.
Before you start collation, look at it and if the figures are the same, you
gather all the EC8As together. In that sense, it is a manual process.”
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