{"id":110336,"date":"2024-01-28T23:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=110336"},"modified":"2024-01-28T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:58:32","slug":"inec-owes-nigerians-explanation-over-irev-failure-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/inec-owes-nigerians-explanation-over-irev-failure-jega\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC owes Nigerians explanation over IReV failure \u2013 Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1789364360932257643\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, said the electoral commission owes Nigerians an explanation over the failure of the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) and the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) during the 2023 general elections.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nJega made this assertion in an interview with Channels Television during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, blamed desperate politicians for allegedly infiltrating the two technological systems introduced by INEC for the accreditation and electronic transmission of votes in the last elections.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that during the February 2023 presidential and National Assembly polls, there was public outcry that INEC officials at the polling units were unable to upload election results electronically to the IReV, as stipulated by Section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition parties kicked against the manual collation of results and the announcement of winners in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral body acknowledged that certain glitches made real-time transmission of results impossible and promised to fix the situation.<\/p>\n<p>But, the opposition parties approached the courts and challenged the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was declared winner of the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu later won at the tribunal and the Supreme Court. Jega said though INEC meant well, some politicians circumvented the whole IReV and BVAS systems.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the IReV issue, however, Jega said, \u201cIn 2023, INEC did its best under very difficult circumstances and a lot of these difficult circumstances were caused by the mindset of our selfish politicians who wanted to win by hook or by crook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINEC has overtime introduced technology to make the process of election results very transparent with integrity but from my own experience when I was in INEC from 2011 to 2015;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026and I suspect that a lot of that has continued to be so up to 2023, our reckless politicians try to be a step ahead of INEC; if you introduce something today and you try it, they try to be a step ahead of you and beat it by the next election.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cAnd of course, they can also use ways and means to not only truncate but also bypass something that has actually been put legitimately in order to add to the integrity of the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask my opinion, I feel very strongly that INEC needs to tell us more about what happened with the IReV. In fact, at one point, I was even calling for a thorough public inquiry about what happened with regards to IReV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that something has happened, that in spite of the confidence and the very articulate manner the INEC chairman (Mahmood Yakubu) had spoken about the IReV and it then failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that some of our reckless politicians may have infiltrated it and truncated it but INEC will take the blame for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, once the court cases are resolved, \u201cwe need to go back to the bottom of what happened with the IReV\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, said the electoral commission owes Nigerians an explanation over the failure of the INEC Result Viewing Portal&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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