2027: Trust me to deliver credible elections - Amupitan tells Nigerians

The president of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, has appealed to Nigerians to person assurance successful his leadership, assuring them that helium volition present free, fair, credible and inclusive elections successful 2027.

Amupitan gave the assurance connected Thursday during a dialog organised by the Kimpact Development Initiative, KDI, astatine Chatham House successful London, United Kingdom.

Speaking against the backdrop of concerns implicit the credibility of the 2023 wide election, the INEC president admitted that method problems during the workout had affected nationalist assurance successful the commission.

“The 2023 wide predetermination importantly affected nationalist assurance successful INEC, and the committee is inactive moving to rebuild the spot of Nigerians,” helium said.

Amupitan, however, assured Nigerians that measures had been introduced to forestall inaccurate polling portion results from appearing connected the INEC Result Viewing Portal, IReV, successful 2027.

“The large problems we identified successful 2023 occurred during the collation of results. We person present introduced method measures to observe errors and forestall inaccurate results from being uploaded to IReV,” helium said.

“We person introduced safeguards to guarantee that immoderate effect that is inaccurate astatine the polling portion volition not beryllium uploaded to IReV. Nigerians ...