Analysis - The country's 2023 elections delivered a president, but the process was far from perfect.
also created confusion and frustration. Although the commission sent messages to those affected, not all received the communications, leading to boycotts by some who struggled to locate their polling units on election day.Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling APC was declared president-elect after winning 36.6% of total votes and 25% of ballots in 30. The outcome has been challenged by the main opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Obi, who placed second and third.
Two critical functions were expected of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System. First, accreditation of voters' biometrics - fingerprint and facial - at polling stations. Second, taking pictures of results forms and submitting them electronically, along with the total number of accredited voters, to the INEC's servers/central collation centre. The outcomes were to be released on the Results Viewing Portal for public access.
than half , the voter accreditation devices allowed results submitted offline to be released automatically when the device was connected to the internet.According to aby Yiaga Africa, in 69% of polling units, the presiding officer attempted to send the results image to the INEC's online system. Yet the findings reveal that some ad hoc polling staff didn't try to immediately transfer the data after party agents endorsed counted results.
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