The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stated that it would not be fair to evaluate it based on the upload error that happened during the presidential election on February 25 and that it does not affect all polls.

Festus Okoye, the national commissioner for INEC, made this statement while reacting to the final report on the general elections of 2023 that the European Union Election Observation Mission presented recently.

“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 revealed in a statement.

Okoye stated that despite the difficulties encountered, a lot of Nigerians applauded the electoral authority for using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) during the general elections and added that the law now gives political parties the right to be aware of what occurs at the polling places.

He said: “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 go to the collation centre. So, it is not true for a political party to rely only on result uploads in order to get the evidence with which it wants to prosecute its case in court,” he added.

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