The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that the results of the 2019 general elections will be transmitted electronically, via the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT).
According to a reliable source the development was made public by Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, during a working visit to the NIGCOMSAT headquarters in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Wednesday, February 7.
Our source gathers that immediately after counting at polling units, INEC plans to use the NIGCOMSAT Sat 1-R satellite to transmit the results electronically.
The INEC boss stated that the commission was committed to deepening the deployment of technology in elections; and expressed satisfaction with what he saw at the satellite communication agency.
According to Yakubu, the results of elections of each of the 119, 973 polling units across the country and the scanned image of result sheets would be electronically transmitted on the spot and in real time.
He also implored NIGCOMSAT to use electronic message display to aid with voter education as the elections draw near.
He stated: “It is for this reason that we wish to leverage on the capacity of NIGCOMSAT to provide a wide range of telecommunication services.
“In particular, your broadband service offers a tremendous flexible bandwidth capacity that can be deployed almost anywhere and in a short period of time, including hard-to-reach and temporary locations.
Already the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would announce the 2019 election results electronically in addition to issuing physical copies of results to party agents.
The electoral body, therefore, called on telecoms service providers to assist the commission.
Prof Mahmood Yakubu said this when he visited the executive vice-chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Danbatta, in Abuja.
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