THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has formally explained why the INEC result viewing portal (IREV) failed to upload the presidential results of the 25 February 2023 election despite the seamless working of the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS).
This is contained in parts of the official report of the 2023 elections, cited by this newspaper and expected to be formally released by soon by INEC ahead of the first anniversary of the election.
The elections were seen as controversial by mostly opposition party members, some Nigerians as well as domestic and international election observers.
It took weeks for the presidential results to be uploaded to IReV, leading to widespread protests by opposition parties and their supporters.
Also, the results eventually posted on IReV were analysed by several media and civil society organisations with a conclusion that the votes for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), were inflated in Rivers State while those of Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), were reduced.
Tinubu was credited with 231,591 votes while Obi had 175,071 votes in the official results.
