THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has learned its lessons from the February 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections.
INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, who stated this on Channels Television said that “valuable lessons” learned would be used in the governorship and state assembly polls next weekend.
He said serious efforts were being made to rectify challenges with the Result Viewing Portal (IReV) ahead of the March 18 polls.
Okoye added that the ICT department of the commission now knows what to do if there are issues with the uploading of polling unit results on the IReV portal in March 18 polls.
The IReV and the BVAS are new technologies introduced by the INEC for the accreditation and electronic transmission of votes for the 2023 general elections.
At the presidential and National Assembly polls, opposition parties complained that INEC officials at the polling units were unable to upload election results electronically to the IReV.
The parties also kicked against the manual collation of results and the announcement of winners in the polls.
The electoral body promised to fix the glitches but opposition parties have gone to court to challenge the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was declared president-elect by the electoral umpire.
