But Yakubu made the clarification during his visit to Lokoja, Kogi State capital where he monitored Saturday’s mock election and also assessed the commission’s level of preparedness ahead of the election.
Yakubu reiterated that the governorship election in the three states would be conducted in line with the Electoral Act.
When asked about the method that would be adopted for the transmission of election results, he said: “The method is as provided by law – electronic accreditation, electronic upload of results on the INEC Results Viewing (IReV) portal, and that is why we are doing this mock.
“So, please, disregard whatever was reported about what the REC was said to have said in Bayelsa and that is going to be the procedure. And it is for that reason that I will advise you also for those who have registered on the IReV portal, in the next two hours or so, they should go to the IReV portal, they see the result of the mock from all the three states; we are uploading, as we have done in previous elections.”
Yakubu further revealed that the commission would hold a security meeting next week Friday in Abuja with the security agencies, adding that the meeting would also have the National Security Adviser (NSA) in preparation for the polls.
The chairman said the thrust of the meeting would be the security arrangement and deployment for the elections in three states
“Well, so far so good in terms of assurance from the security agencies as we can see. They’re even here for the mock and next week, Friday, there is going to be a high-level meeting in Abuja, chaired by myself and the National Security Adviser in which all the security chiefs will be present – no representation to discuss the issue of security for the three states, so, we are on top of the situation in terms of security arrangement and security deployment,” he added.
Yakubu explained that the Ganaja polling unit was chosen for the mock exercise because it was the most densely populated in Nigeria with 13, 000 people.
