JUST IN: INEC refutes the claims that they abandoned electronic transmission for manual

It has been denied that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will manually collate the results of the general elections in 2023. There were rumors that INEC had switched to a manual process for transmitting election results in advance of the 2023 vote. In a statement released on Sunday Festus Okoye National Commissioner of INEC and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, refuted the accuracy of the report. A recent brief interview given to a national newspaper on the process for managing election results led to a misunderstanding, according to a statement from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The explanation of the result management procedure has been interpreted by some to mean that the Commission has abandoned the electronic transmission of results