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Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, has allayed fears over the slow uploading of polling unit results of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly election results on its result viewing portal (IRev).
Voting has ended in most of the over 176,000 polling units where the election was held across the country on Saturday.
Some Nigerians had taken to social media to express their frustrations as to why almost 24 hours after voting ended only scanty results of the polls had been uploaded on the portal, contrary to the promise by INEC to upload the results on the portal as soon as counting ended.
In a statement by its Commissioner for Voter Education, Festus Okoye, INEC said it was aware of the challenges and blamed technical hitches.
The commission allayed fears that the portal was compromised, saying the IReV remained secured.
It said the problem which had started seeing improvement since Saturday night was not due to any interference by hackers. It attributed the problem to routine glitches common to technological platforms.
INEC assured Nigerians that the results are safe on both the result sheets and the IReV.
It added that its technical team is working to resolve the issue totally.
Meanwhile, operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), Sunday evening arrested the Abia State Resident Electorial Commisioner (REC) of the Independent National Electorial Commission (INEC), Chijioke Uzochukwu for absconding from his duty post.
It was gathered that Ezeani was arrested on Sunday, after he went into hiding in a hotel in Umuahia after the Presidential and National Assembly elections held in Abia State.
A source told this reporter that Uzochukwu was picked up in his hotel room after the DSS broke the door of the room following his refusal to open the door when he was asked to do so.
The source said following the REC’s arrest, the INEC Director of Admin in the state was mandated to take over the election process in the state.
The source said, “He has been in hiding and not picking calls. The National chairman has tried to reach him several times but he is not picking.
“There is confusion in Abia state, so the REC went into hiding at Hotel Royal Damgrete. The DSS broke into his room after knocking on the door several times and he refused to open. The director of admin of INEC has been asked to take over”, the source said.
It could be recalled that since after the election on Saturday, no official result has been announced in Abia state, perhaps, as a result of the REC’s action.
