The results of the governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States on November 11 will be electronically transmitted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Ofiong Efanga, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Bayelsa State, had previously said that the commission will use a manual method to transmit the election results.
But in a somewhat dramatic turnabout, INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu informed media during Saturday’s simulated election in Kogi State that the commission would electronically send the poll results.
He said: “The method is as provided by law—electronic accreditation and electronic upload of results on the INEC Results Viewing (IReV) portal, and that is why we are doing this mock.
“So please disregard whatever was reported about what the REC was said to have said in Bayelsa and that is going to be the procedure.
“And it is for that reason that I will advise you also for those who have registered on the IReV portal, in the next two hours or so, they should go to the IReV portal, they will see the result of the mock from all three we are uploading, as we have done in previous elections.”