FCT POLLS: INEC STARTS MANUAL, ELECTRONIC RESULT COLLATION AT KUBWA CENTER

Read Time:1 Minute, 40 Second

By: Balogun Ibrahim

Collation officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission at the Kubwa Registration Area Centre have commenced both manual and electronic tabulation of results following the conclusion of voting in the FCT Area Council Elections.

The process began at 6:15 pm, with Presiding Officers gathering at the LEA Primary School, Kubwa II, where most electoral officers input their results into the official EC8A forms.

According to reports, the hybrid collation approach is designed to reconcile the results uploaded from polling units via the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) on the INEC Results Viewing Portal with the manually recorded EC8A forms.

“All the Presiding Officers have already uploaded their results using BVAS. What they are doing now is collating the results through both manual and electronic means, using the laptops provided,” a source explained.

“This ensures that the results are consistent and fully reconciled. The figures already uploaded from the polling units are available on the IReV portal,” a source explained.

“From here, the results will be taken to our office at the Area Council for further collation,” a Registration Area Supervisor, who asked not to be named, told our correspondent.

READ MORE…

KADUNA: NAFDAC ALERTS PUBLIC TO COUNTERFEIT BABY FORMULA EXPIRY DATES

Another supervisor, Mrs. Okoye Adeiza, explained that the laptops were operated by the Operations team, while the BVAS devices were managed by the ICT unit, with both teams working together to verify that the results matched those submitted from the polling units.

“This is the Operations team handling the laptops, and this is ICT managing the BVAS. We are working together to ensure the results match before they are taken to the local government,” she said.

The Media reports that the Area Council elections were conducted across all six councils and 62 wards of the FCT to elect Chairmen and Councillors.

Voting in many parts of Kubwa Ward began later than the scheduled 8:30 am, with several units recording low voter turnout.