The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it would declare the results of tomorrow’s elections as quickly as possible.
The electoral commission said it would not waste time in declaring the winners of the elections scheduled to hold tomorrow, Saturday February 25, 2023.
This was revealed by the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Friday, February 24, 2023.
The Informant247 recalls that the result of the 2019 presidential election was announced two days after the election.
But the chairman said the electoral umpire will not waste time, as it is ready to declare the results of the elections as quickly as possible.
“I just want to say that we will ensure that it (result declaration) will be done speedily. I can’t put a finger on the number of days or number of hours it will take, but it will be done speedily. We are aware of the anxiety and the need for us to conclude the process quickly, it will be concluded quickly,” he said.
“It is not all our operations that are paid for by cash. In fact, the bulk of our procurement for both goods and services is done electronically, but we need a small amount of money to pay for the unbanked who render critical services, particularly at the local level.
“We anticipated this challenge and interacted with the Central Bank, they promised us that the little amount we need to pay for services in cash, they will make the funds available to us and they have done so.
“And these funds have already been accessed by our state offices for elections which is why the movement of personnel and materials in the last couple of days has gone on unhindered. So, I must give credit for our relationship with the Central Bank in that regard. So, the process won’t suffer any encumbrance as a result,” Yakubu said.
The INEC boss added that: “Having deployed these materials to the Local Government Areas, we are today devolving the deployment to the Registration Area Centers (RACs) so that early morning tomorrow the polls will open as planned. These RACs have been activated and election duty staff have started arriving in them.”