According to Festus Okoye, a former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, all Nigerian polling places have internet connectivity.
On Tuesday, Okoye disclosed this information in an interview that was watched on Trust TV.
He was discussing the national discussion surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s signature on the National Assembly’s change to the Electoral Act.
“Every INEC machine for the election comes with a power bank and other accessories,” he stated.
In the event that there is no network at the time of the election, the Presiding Officer snaps the EC8A, which is where the data is stored. It starts transmitting as soon as it makes contact with the network.
Therefore, the Presiding Officer cannot change what he has entered until he has a network. I don’t think this whole network issue is worth debating.
In this country, there isn’t a single polling station without a network. No. Put all of this network connectivity nonsense aside. It is only a weak excuse.
“The Commission held elections in various locations prior to the deployment of iReV and uploaded results at the polling unit level using its result viewing portal.”
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