Gov’ship Polls- INEC Received Fresh Court Order.

Gov’ship Polls- INEC received fresh court order.

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, March 17, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to transmit the results of the governorship and state assembly elections electronically from the polling units. NewsReport gathered.

Following the counting of ballot papers in Akwa Ibom State, INEC receives an order to upload results to IREV.

Original Court serves INEC a fresh order Justice Obiora Egwuatu also ordered the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to upload the scanned copy of EC8A to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV) immediately after the elections in Akwa Ibom, the Daily Trust reported.

The judge further ordered INEC to paste results EC60 (E) at polling units after completing the EC8A result sheets in the state, the Premium Times report added.

March 18: A full list emerges as Sanwo-Olu, Makinde, and other top governors seek re-election on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s governorship and state assembly elections are scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 18, 2023, and 28 out of Nigeria’s 36 states will hold the poll.

While some of these states will definitely get new governors in office, there are other states with sitting governors who emerged victorious in the year 2019 and are hoping to get another four years on Saturday to serve the good people of their respective states.

Ahead of the big day, eight of the 36 states — Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun, and Ondo — have governorship elections “off-season” due to litigation and court judgments.

In another report, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) disclosed that results from over 170,000 polling units in the February 25 presidential and national assembly elections are now available on its Result Viewing Portal.

Festus Okoye, the INEC national commissioner and chairman of the information and voter education committee, made this known while featuring on the Channel 4 television program Politics Today on Sunday evening, March 12.

Okoye disclosed that the electoral body is currently reconfiguring the bimodal voter registration systems (BVAS) for the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections.