Ekiti 2026 election to test Nigeria’s new Electoral Act- Yiaga Africa

A starring predetermination reflection group, Yiaga Africa, has described Saturday’s governorship predetermination successful Ekiti State, arsenic a captious trial of Nigeria’s caller Electoral Act 2026, informing that the credibility of the canvass volition beryllium connected electoral preparedness, transparency successful results management, and the neutrality of information agencies.

The organisation said this successful a pre-election connection issued up of the June 20 governorship election, which volition beryllium conducted crossed 2,445 polling units successful Ekiti State’s 16 section authorities areas.

Yiaga Africa noted that the predetermination is the archetypal governorship canvass to beryllium conducted nether the Electoral Act 2026 and volition service arsenic a large appraisal of caller provisions relating to physics transmission of results, administrative review, and results collation.

It highlighted INEC’s instauration of the e-EC8A effect validation process, which enables polling officials to participate polling portion results straight into the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, allowing verification against scanned copies uploaded to the INEC Result Viewing Portal, IReV.

According to the organisation, 1,059,360 registered voters are expected to enactment successful the election, with the Independent National Electoral Commission reporting a Permanent Voter Card postulation complaint of 97.1 per cent.