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The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu, says there is nothing unusual in the time it has taken for results of the Governorship and State Assembly election results to be announced.
Speaking to Channels Television on Sunday morning, he explained the process of collating the results and maintained that this cannot be truncated.
According to him, results from each Polling Unit will first be collated at the ward level and then sent to the Local Government level. This means that the Local Government would collate the results from all its wards.
The final stop would be the state capital where all results from the LGs will be collated and must be confirmed to have tallied. Only then can the result be made public.
Mr Idowu also responded to allegations of compromise made against INEC officials in some states. He said that INEC would be willing to discipline any of its officials found wanting.
On the commission’s plan regarding persons arrested for electoral offences during the elections on Saturday, he reiterated an earlier stance that INEC is not an agency that arrests as they can only prosecute based on investigation and reports provided by security agencies.
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