{"id":28817,"date":"2023-07-07T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=28817"},"modified":"2023-07-07T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:44:28","slug":"what-caused-the-inec-glitch-by-sola-adeyegbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=28817","title":{"rendered":"*What caused the INEC glitch?*  by Sola Adeyegbe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That glitch which made it impossible to upload results to irev immediately must be fully explained by INEC. Nigerians as the primary election stakeholders need to know.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The upload of results from the polling unit straight to the INEC irev is an integral part of the electoral process. Therefore,\u00a0 INEC should let\u00a0 Nigerians know the exact nature of the glitch and make a full disclosure on it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">*However for clarity let it be stated categorically that the failure to upload\u00a0 the results to irev does not invalidate the election results!*<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That is the purpose of Clause 48(c) and Clause 93 of the INEC Regulations. These Clauses combined together form the remedy to\u00a0 the situations where an upload to irev is not done. These same Clauses come in as remedy even if the inec polling officer had gone to a bar after elections, gets drunk and threw away the original form ec8a.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">So if it happens that a stupid and wicked inec polling officer fails to upload and later chews up and swallows the original result, the 2 clauses say that in such cases the collation officer can use for collation purposes the copy of the results with the:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1. Police<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2. Party agents<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">in that order.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Let me reiterate that INEC remains responsible for delivering a credible election.\u00a0 The Clauses mentioned here do not remove from the duties of\u00a0 INEC to follow the rules. INEC remains responsible still and they ought to upload to irev as an integral part of the election process.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What the cited Clauses do is that just in case there is a failure in the upload there is a fall back position. However this does not free INEC from a clear duty to upload. And if the upload was not done same day or done at snail speed over weeks and remains to be\u00a0 concluded as of now,\u00a0 then they owe Nigerians full explanations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is not enough to say there was a glitch. The glitch must be fully explained.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my view, the upload to irev have been romanticized unnecessarily. The inec officials right from their Chairman to other key officials have not helped matters. They gave Nigerians the wrong information. They gave information that suggest that irev uploads are the actual determinants of the veracity of results. The correct position by law and regulations is that collation is to be done with hard copy documents which\u00a0 is the hard copy form ec8a. Where there are uploads all the better and the collation officer will have the benefit of comparing the hard cooy with the one uploaded. But if the uploads are unavailable the collation goes on even if the\u00a0 copies with the Police or the party agents will have to be used for collation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Again, all these\u00a0 boils down to individual Nigerians.\u00a0 If all of us are determined to make things work, all the better. But if we are insincere then no matter the law or regulations they will be circumvented and bypassed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We await the outcome of the post election review and analysis by INEC. We hope they will explain the famous glitch in their report. They must also pledge not to play to the gallery again, never again to mislead Nigerians by making false promises. All promises of &#8220;real time&#8221; upload to irev and making it appear as though the uploaded results are absolute in themselves are false and have caused so much pain, distress and distrust in the entire process. It was totally careless and unnecessary!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But INEC must fully explain that glitch!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I wish Nigeria well.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That glitch which made it impossible to upload results to irev immediately must be fully explained by INEC. Nigerians as the primary election stakeholders need to know. The upload of results from the polling unit straight to the INEC irev is an integral part of the electoral process. Therefore,\u00a0 INEC should let\u00a0 Nigerians know the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[6096],"class_list":["post-28817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-inec-irev"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-e1688740998268.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-7uN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28820,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28817\/revisions\/28820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}