#NigeriaDecides2023: INEC receives results of 14 states, resumes collation Tuesday

After receiving the results from 14 states, INEC Chairman and Electoral Officer for the Presidential election, Mahmood Yakubusaid the collation of the results continues on Friday) by 11 am

Mr. Yakubu only received the Ekiti results on Sunday. On Monday, he received the results of Kwara, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Yobe, Enugu, Lagos, Gombe, Jigawa, Adamawa, Katsina and Nasarawa States.

However, in the absence of State Collecting Officers and Electoral Commissioners (RECs), the INEC chairman said that the collection will be closed for the day and resume at 11am on Tuesday when more state results will come.

So far, the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, has won in six states; Jigawa, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Kwara, and Ekiti States.

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is leading in five states; Katsina, Adamawa, Gombe, Yobe and Osun states.

Meanwhile, the Labor Party (LP) Candidate, Peter Obi, has won in Nasarawa, Lagos and Enugu States.

The New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has yet to win any of the states presented to the INEC Chairmanship on Tuesday.

PDP, LP do not agree

Earlier, during the collection of results, PDP and LP agents walked out of the collection center in protest over the failure of INEC to upload all the results of the polling units before the collection of results resumed.

Both parties claimed that the election act states that all results must be uploaded to the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) before collection.

But the INEC Chairman insisted that the process could continue even if the results were not uploaded.

INEC’s National Commissioner for Voter Education and Publicity, Festus Okoye, on Sunday, attributed the failure to upload the results to a technical issue.

The INEC chairman, however, said he would speak on the uploading of the results on Tuesday.

At a press conference on Tuesday, the PDP accused INEC of announcing compromised results.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, demanded that INEC post the results immediately “to the INEC Server/Website as provided in section 68 of the 2022 Electoral Act.”