Court Rules That INEC Can Determine How Election Results Are Transmitted
The court has ruled on the transmission of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission Delivering its judgement, the Federal High Court earlier ordered INEC to upload results electronically to its portal (IReV) In a twist, the Court of Appeal in Lagos upturned the High Court’s judgement and held that INEC is fully backed by the constitution to determine how it operates, including how it transmits or transfers election results to the collation centre
The case filed by the Labour Party against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been nullified. The Court of Appeal, Lagos division, has voided a Federal High Court decision that mandated INEC to electronically upload results of the governorship and state of assembly elections from the polling units directly to the Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
Source:- Legit
