Kogi 2024: Governorship election results will be transmitted from polling units — INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that the results of the Kogi State governorship election on November 11 will be sent electronically straight from polling units to its server.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kogi, Prof. Gabriel Longpet, disclosed this at a two-day media roundtable Engagement on the Kogi election Organized by the Independent Press Center, IPC in Abuja.

National daily Newspaper gathered that Prof. Longpet said that the electronic transmission of the results will help to eliminate rigging, electoral fraud and other irregularities and to ensure the enthronement of credibility and transparency in the electoral process.

He also assured that the issues of insecurity that characterized the 2019 governorship election have been critically analyzed and dealt with, urging Kogi electorates to come out and vote as the election will be volatile free.

Of course, we will be transmitting the Kogi election electronically. A lot of infractions do happen between the polling units and the collation center; the transmission of the results through electronic methods will definitely prevent such issues of infractions from occurring.

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By the electoral acts, any results figures on form EC8A that appeared mutilated cannot be allowed. If results are transmitted electronically to the IREV, there will be no need for results to be hijacked in the first place, mutilated or changed.”

He added that everyone  must come out and perform their state responsibility, and never to accommodate promised that every security measures would be put in place, before and after the election, also urging the  Kogi electorates to come out and vote in mass and much as the election will be volatile free and credible.

“We have only one message and the message is that you come out to exercise your franchise,” he said.