It appears on Tuesday that the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, opened a new portal https/HDR.inecnigeria.org/results and started to upload polling Units results of last Saturday presidential election.
The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Tony Ojukwu ,SAN, who made the observation at a forum after a civil society organisation drew his attention to the site appealed to Nigerians to be patient with Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.
He said INEC will sort out the problems by uploading the results of polling Units of Saturday Presidential election into its portal.
Ojukwu made the appeal in Abuja during the Review Forum of 2023 general elections organised by the Commission.He said that the election is guided by rules and laws which all entity engaged on it must comply with to guarantee its success.
He said that the Electoral Act 2022 was specific on the roles of presiding officer adding that for them not to comply to the provisions of the Act is an offence.
He maintained that electoral Act was meant to ensure creditability and that the electoral body can not collate results of the election from only hard copies of results submitted to it by the returning officers without verifying it from the results posted on its portal from the units.
Ojukwu assured that INEC is attending to the problem as it has opened a new portal https/HDR.inecnigeria.org/results where results of last Saturday election have started to be uploaded on Tuesday.
The Executive Secretary NHRC commended the personnel of law enforcement agencies for their performance during the election. He said that except in three states where there were violence ,the security agencies show respect for human rights.
In a good will massage the Executive Secretary, Transition Monitoring Group, Musa Rafasanjani said the used of BVAS reduced rigging during. We are not seeing bogus millions of votes from state. Nigerians should continue to demand for accountability and if you promise to transmit election results do it.
According to NHRC’s report presented at the review forum , 15 hate speeches including two from traditional rulers in Lagos were recorded in February while right to peaceful assembly were breached in Kano, Rivers and Lagos States.
There were nine political killings in Enugu ,Kaduna, Rivers, Kano ,Lagos and suppression of voters in Rivers,Lagos and Bayelsa States .NHRC said that it is sad that ten law enforcement officers were killed during the election.
NHRC report said that step must be taken not to allow Nigerians to lose faith in election warning that it could lead to apathy in March 11 Governorship and State Assembly elections.