Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, a former INEC director of voter education and publicity, said on Tuesday that the computerised compilation of results for the general elections in 2023 was not mandatory.
Osaze-Uzzi stated on Channels Television’s Politics Today that the prescribed method of compiling results is manual while citing Section 64 (4) of the Electoral Act. According to him, the electoral commission is given the authority to begin compiling the results as soon as the outcome has been verified and confirmed.
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“The prescribed mode is the manual collation; it didn’t say you should collate electronically. There is nowhere in the law, guidelines you will see electronic (collation of result),” he stated.
“Go back to (Section) 64 (4). Verification and confirmation, that is what is required with the electronically transmitted. But collation is still manual.
“Before you start that process, you must go to the electronic ones and say ‘Are these figures consistent?’ It doesn’t say to start collating from the BVAS, transmitted results. It says to start collation. Before you start collation, look at it and if the figures are the same, you gather all the EC8As together. In that sense, it is a manual process.”
