The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained how polling unit results will be transmitted during the governorship elections across the states of the federation on Saturday March 18.

Speaking on Arise Television on Friday, the INEC Chairman, Festus Okoye claimed the commission had learnt valuable lessons from the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.

He said, “The law as of today prescribes a dual mode of either transmission of results or transfer of results.”

“The Presiding Officer will sign that particular result sheet and stamp it, the PU agent or party agent if available will also countersign and copies will be given to them and the police.

“That original result will be what will be scanned and uploaded to our INEC Result Viewing Portal for public viewing. Not only that, the accreditation data that has arisen from that polling unit will also be uploaded, but the physical result and the BVAS itself will also be taken to the Registration Area Collation centre.”

Speaking on the commission’s preparedness, Okoye said, “As of today, what we’re having is what we call state assembly and governorship elections.

“In all the states of the federation, both the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines and all the sensitive election materials have left the Central Bank and the various state offices of the federation.

“We want to ensure that all polling units open on time. Secondly, we made sure that we reconfigured all the BVAS that will be used for this particular election in terms of making sure that the BVAS perform optimally and also making sure that some of the challenges we had in the previous elections do not reoccur,” the chairman added.