The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner in charge of Southwest, Solomon Soyebi, at the post-election review meeting held at the Commission’s office in Osogbo, the Osun State, insisted that it did not transmit results of the 2019 General Election electronically through its server due to circumstances beyond its control.
“For some reasons, the Commission did not adopt that option for 2019 election. It can only tell you that we are not ready for that technology because we were sure it would not be successful,” he said.
According to him, the clarification became necessary because of rising controversies on the transmission of the election results from states to the INEC server.
He further explained that although the process was piloted in Sokoto and tested in the Osun Governorship Election, it was not used for the General Elections.
“We didn’t use it for 2019 elections and I did say again that the 2019 elections were conducted according to law.
“We used the Federal Constitution of the Federal Republic, we used the Electoral Act and we used our own guidelines for 2019.
“If you look at all of them, we did not conduct elections outside these three instruments and you will see that there was no way where the issue of transmission was highlighted there,” he added.
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