Now that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started uploading election results on its portal, the direction Nigeria’s polity will take will become clearer to many.
It will spring up more questions in the minds of Nigerians, regarding the credibility of the election.
These uploads are happening even as Nigerians already know who their next president is.
At least 145, 519 results from 176, 846 polling units have been uploaded four days after the presidential election was held in Africa’s most populous nation.
The number of polling units uploaded by the electoral body represents 82% of results from all the polling units.
As of the time of filing this report, the electronic transmission of results is still ongoing.
A Slow Process Whipping up Questions
Many have said the delay in uploading the result was a tactic that INEC adopted to manipulate the results of the Presidential election?
Definitely, these claims will surface when appeal of election results begin.
The commission failed to keep to its words that election results will hit the internet as soon as the results are established at polling units.
Why did the commission wait for four days after election before uploading the results?
These and other questions that participants in the election are asking remain unanswered.
As a result, Nigerians have continued to doubt if ‘what they ordered was what they got’.
Political parties, Nigerians and groups had condemned INEC over its failure to electronically transmit results to the results viewing portal
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, had promised that accreditation figures and results would be transmitted on election day.
However, on the INEC website on Wednesday, the results of all the polling units were yet to be uploaded.
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In the early hours of Wednesday, INEC declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu the winner of the election.
The certificate of return was also presented to Tinubu in Abuja by INEC.
According to the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, the former governor of Lagos State secured a total of 8,794,726 votes to win the election.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had the second-highest figure with 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) was next with 6,101,533 votes.
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