JUST-IN:Nov. 11 governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa will be transmitted according to the law — INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the results of the November 11 governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states will be transmitted according to the provisions of the Electoral Act.

Yakubu said this in reaction to Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Mr Obo Effanga, saying that election results in the state would be transmitted manually.

According to the NAN, he stated that the commission would follow the laws for accreditation and results collation during the states’ elections.

“The method is as provided by law, electronic accreditation, electronic upload of results on the IREV portal and that is why we are doing this mock.

So, please disregard whatever was reported about what the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) was said to have said in Bayelsa. That’s going to be the procedure and it’s for that reason that I will advise you also for those who are registered on the IREV portal.

That in the next two hours or so, go to the IREV portal and you will see the result of the mock accreditation from all three states. We are uploading, as we have done in previous elections,” Yakubu said.

The INEC Chairman who was monitoring the mock accreditation exercise in Lokoja, Kogi State yesterday ahead of the coming polls, said, “Please disregard whatever anyone has said about the transmission of results.”

On the issue of security concerns ahead of the elections in the three states, Yakubu said that the commission was already working with security agencies.

“Next week Friday there is going to be a high-level meeting in Abuja co-chair 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 elections, we are on top of the situation in terms of security arrangement and security deployment,” he said.