Collation officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have commenced both manual and electronic collation of results at the Kubwa Registration Area Centre following the conclusion of voting in the FCT Area Council elections.
The process began around 6:15 pm at the LEA Primary School, Kubwa II, where presiding officers converged to submit and reconcile results from their respective polling units. Most of the officers were seen entering figures into Form EC8A while cross-checking electronically transmitted results.
INEC officials explained that the hybrid approach was designed to ensure consistency between results uploaded from polling units to the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the manually recorded figures on Form EC8A.
“All the presiding officers have already uploaded their results with their BVAS. What they are doing now is to collate using both the manual forms and the electronic devices — the laptops you see here,” a Registration Area Supervisor, who requested anonymity, said.
According to the official, the uploaded results are already visible on the IReV platform, and the current exercise is to confirm that the manually recorded results tally with what was transmitted electronically. After reconciliation at the registration area level, the results will be moved to the Area Council office for further collation.
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Another supervisor, Mrs Okoye Adeiza, clarified the roles of the different teams involved in the process.
“This is Operations,” she said, referring to officials working on laptops. “This is ICT,” she added, pointing to the BVAS devices. “We are working together to make sure the results match. From here, we take them to the local government.”
The FCT Area Council elections were conducted across six Area Councils and 62 wards to elect chairmen and councillors.
Although voting was scheduled to begin at 8:30 am, several polling units in Kubwa Ward recorded delays, with many also reporting low voter turnout throughout the day.
