November 11 guber polls: INEC assures on transmission of results

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has again, assured Nigerians, especially the people of Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states, that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, will be used for authentication of voters and that results would be uploaded to the INEC Result Viewing Portal, IReV, during the November 11 governorship elections.

Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, spoke at the quarterly consultative meeting with the media at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.

The INEC boss said he was proud of the close collaboration between the media and the Commission.

He also promised to share the reports of the 2023 general election with Nigerians as soon as they are finalised and published.

“I am glad to note that many of you here today are either directly involved in the coverage of the election or deploying teams of journalists to the three states,” he said.

“In fact, our updated statistics show that 94 media organisations, deploying 1,255 personnel, have been accredited for the elections.

“In the next few days, the accredited media organisations will be notified of the date for the collection of the identity cards for their officials.

“About two weeks ago, the Commission conducted a mock accreditation involving actual voters in designated polling units in the three States.

“By doing so, we tested the efficacy of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for both biometric authentication of voters and the upload of result to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV).

“Some of you observed the mock accreditation exercise and viewed the results on the IReV portal.

“We have received no adverse report so far. By this, we are encouraged that the test was successful and we look forward to improved performance of the BVAS in voter accreditation and result upload in the forthcoming Governorship elections and beyond.”