Group asks INEC to maintain electronic transfer of results
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been tasked with ensuring that it keeps its promise to transmit the results of the 2023 general elections electronically in accordance with the new electoral law.
This, according to the Delta Youth Coalition (DYC), is to avert the wrath of young Nigerians in the country's 2023 general elections.
DYC General Chairman Chibuzor Agunwa gave the charge on Tuesday, during an interactive session with reporters in Asaba, in reference to comments by INEC spokesman Festus Okoye that the results of the 2023 elections would be collected manually.< /p>
The General Chairman said that although the commission claimed that Okoye had been misinterpreted in the report, it should not deviate from the adoption of electronic transmission of results for the election.
“We wish to reassure Nigerians that the electronic transmission of results has become sustainable and that INEC should ensure the credibility and transparency of the process when citizens follow the results at the polling station level on the portal. visualization of INEC (IReV) results in real time on election day. There would be no changes or deviations in subsequent elections."
The DYC boss felt that the commission should also try as much as possible to maintain its integrity in accordance with the new electoral law as amended in articles 60, 62 and 64, as reproduced in the elections of Osun and 'Ekiti in order to promote free and fair elections and prevent the trend of electoral malfeasance, election rigging and brutality as young Nigerians would not tolerate it.
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The coalition has warned all presidential candidates, gubernatorial candidates and other political positions from all political parties in the country to ensure that they remove the dream of election rigging from their spirit as citizens, Nigerian youths will resist such events even in 2023 at grassroots level.
“As a group, our mission and vision is to evolve a mass movement of young people and women for participatory democracy and to promote good governance. This is the only way to elect credible leaders. We want people in rural communities to know that government belongs to all of us. »
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been tasked with ensuring that it keeps its promise to transmit the results of the 2023 general elections electronically in accordance with the new electoral law.
This, according to the Delta Youth Coalition (DYC), is to avert the wrath of young Nigerians in the country's 2023 general elections.
DYC General Chairman Chibuzor Agunwa gave the charge on Tuesday, during an interactive session with reporters in Asaba, in reference to comments by INEC spokesman Festus Okoye that the results of the 2023 elections would be collected manually.< /p>
The General Chairman said that although the commission claimed that Okoye had been misinterpreted in the report, it should not deviate from the adoption of electronic transmission of results for the election.
“We wish to reassure Nigerians that the electronic transmission of results has become sustainable and that INEC should ensure the credibility and transparency of the process when citizens follow the results at the polling station level on the portal. visualization of INEC (IReV) results in real time on election day. There would be no changes or deviations in subsequent elections."
The DYC boss felt that the commission should also try as much as possible to maintain its integrity in accordance with the new electoral law as amended in articles 60, 62 and 64, as reproduced in the elections of Osun and 'Ekiti in order to promote free and fair elections and prevent the trend of electoral malfeasance, election rigging and brutality as young Nigerians would not tolerate it.
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The coalition has warned all presidential candidates, gubernatorial candidates and other political positions from all political parties in the country to ensure that they remove the dream of election rigging from their spirit as citizens, Nigerian youths will resist such events even in 2023 at grassroots level.
“As a group, our mission and vision is to evolve a mass movement of young people and women for participatory democracy and to promote good governance. This is the only way to elect credible leaders. We want people in rural communities to know that government belongs to all of us. »
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