His words: “We have been using the IReV for all governorship elections, but it (2023 general election) was the first time we deployed it for the general election setting. Well, we had a glitch for some hours, and we fixed it. But I can assure you that this time around we are not going to have glitches.
“I can affirm that those technical issues have been resolved. Last week, we undertook the mock accreditation, and one of the reasons we did that was to test run these technology gadgets we were going to use, and it was successful,” he said.
Oyekanmi also stated that there could be technology downtime at any point, but noted that the body has learnt lessons from the conduct of the 2023 general election.
“Technology can throw up challenges, but by and large, we have learned our lessons from the 2023 general election.”
He also clarified that what INEC does with the IRev portal is uploading and not transmission of results.
“We are not transmitting; we are uploading,” he said, noting that there are differences between transmitting and uploading.
“All we are doing is taking a picture of the polling unit results and uploading the same to the portal.”
Meanwhile, the commission has described the allegations made by the SDP that its officials were allegedly reconfiguring BVAS ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Kogi State as untrue.
The Chief Press Secretary to INEC chairman, Oyekanmi, in a statement issued yesterday said the configuration of BVAS is done simultaneously and exclusively in the commission’s offices in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states by teams deployed from the national headquarters, Abuja.
He, therefore, urged the public to disregard the story as fake news, while also appealing to political parties to desist from engaging in malicious rumour mongering of this nature.
