Nigeria conducted its presidential election on February 25 with 18 candidates on the ballot. Forty-eight hours later, only 23.5% of the results from the northeast have been uploaded on the INEC Election Result Viewer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
By geopolitical demarcation, the northeast has 6 states, namely: Bauchi, Yobe, Adamawa, Borno, Taraba and Gombe. The states boast of 23,864 voting units created by INEC.
FIJ looked at the progress of result uploads on the online portal and found that only the results from 5,308 polling units were available at about 2:30 pm on Monday.
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The available results thus represent 23.5% of the 23,864 polling units in the region. The figures are as follows:
ADAMAWA: There are 21 local government areas in this state, and 4,104 polling units. Of these units, results from 1,864 were found on the portal, representing 45%.
BAUCHI: There are 5,423 voting points in the state and election results from just 762 units had been submitted online at the last check. This represents 14% of the results expected from the state.
BORNO: INEC result portal only had election results from 449 units out the 5,071 in Borno State, which is 8.9% of the results expected from the state’s 27 local government areas, at the last check.
YOBE: Out of 2,823 units, results had been turned in from 763 voting units electronically. 27% were seen in the portal, leaving 83% out.
GOMBE: In Gombe State’s 11 local government areas, there are 2,988 polling units. At the last check, voting results from 952 were on the portal and this is 32% of the total.
TARABA: Here, 3,455 polling units exist. However, FIJ saw results for only 518 polling booths on the website, just 14.10% of the results expected.
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The Electoral Act (2022) provides for electronic transmission of results. Hence, interested Nigerians, political parties, and local and international monitoring groups are gathering election data from the portal.
FIJ earlier reported that political parties’ agents walked out of the International Conference Centre, the venue of the national collation, partly on the premise that a lot of results were not available on IReV.
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