The Court Ordered INEC To Copy And Send The Election Results From Saturday Electronically.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must electronically submit the results of the gubernatorial and house of assembly elections on Saturday in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which issued the ruling on Friday.

In a ruling, Judge Obiora Egwuatu further mandated the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to submit a scanned copy of the EC8A to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) as soon as all of Akwa Ibom’s polling units had completed their voting and results processes.

After finalizing the EC8A result sheets for the state, the court further instructed the commission to prominently paste the publishing of its result posters, EC60(E), at voting places.

He also directed INEC to use independent, competent, and dependable logistic companies that are non-partisan or are not known to be supporters of any political party to ensure that Section 27(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022 is followed and followed to the letter in the distribution of electoral materials and personnel during the conduct of the polls in the state.

According to Egwuatu, accepting the petitioners’ requests would not hurt the commission’s operation but instead energize it since the electoral umpire had said in its submitted affidavit that it was cognizant of its legal obligations and had not disregarded them.

He made the ruling in response to a lawsuit brought by the Labour Party (LP) and Uduakobong Udoh, the party’s candidate for governor of Akwa Ibom, as well as 13 candidates for the state’s House of Assembly in the March 18 elections.