The race for presidency is stiff between President
Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) and Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) but Nigerians would have known their
next leader by Monday as the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured that the
results of today’s presidential and National Assembly
elections would be released within 48 hours.
Speaking at a joint press conference alongside the
Director General of the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC), Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi, INEC
Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega said it would be
made possible based on the improvements already
made by the commission since the 2011 general
elections.
“We cannot expect the results from the states under 24
hours, we will be collating the results as they are
coming out but I can assure that under 48 hours, all the
results should be ready. We were able to do it in 2011,
we should be able to do this in 2015 based on much
more improvements that have been put in place,” he
said.
Jega also debunked the claim that the master key to the
critical Information Technology (IT) infrastructure
housing the database of INEC for card reader machine
was in possession of an individual that had sympathy
with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its
presidential candidate.
According to him, there is no master key for the card
reader as being claimed, but a source code which was
only known to the manufacturer. Jega said the code
has not been breached, as far as he can tell.
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