The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has clarified that its Results Viewing Portal, IReV, is designed solely for the public display of polling unit results and not for the automatic collation or addition of election results.
INEC National Commissioner, Prof. Kunle Ajayi, made this known while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Friday.
Ajayi assured Nigerians that all results from the Osun State governorship election would be uploaded to the IReV portal, adding that the commission would improve its performance in transmitting results.
“All the results will go on IReV, I can assure you of that. What is going to be different is that we are going to perform better. That is immediately the results are ready, they will capture them and send them to the IReV through the same BVAS.
“The IReV is a viewing centre. There’s a misinformation when it comes to the function of the IReV. The IReV is not an adding machine. It’s not an adding system because some people are expecting that immediately results are coming in, they’ll be adding like that; at the end of the day, there will be a gross trader,” Ajayi said.
He said individuals, groups and institutions could independently collate the results displayed on IReV by adding the figures from polling units.
“But what is important is that the results transmitted to the IReV, are they different from what came up from the PU?” he asked.
Osun election: IReV just viewing centre, not adding machine – INEC