Ex-Minister Creates Citizens Online Portal For Transmission Of Polling Unit Election Results
Ex-Minister Creates Citizens Online Portal For Transmission Of Polling Unit Election Results
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship and State Assembly elections, former Nigerian education minister Oby Ezekwesili has created an online portal for Nigerians to transmit the results of the elections directly from their various polling units across the country.
This comes after Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to transmit the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections electronically from the polling units as the commission told Nigerians that its Results Viewing (IReV) portal experienced technical glitches on the day of the elections.
Announcing the launch of the online portal –http://collate.africa on her Twitter page, Ezekwesili asked Nigerians to convert their anger over INEC’s failure to transmit the presidential election results to action by not just voting on Saturday for the best candidates in the governorship election but also transmitting the results of their polling units to a Citizens-IReV portal.
The former education minister said, “You’re still smarting with anger at the messy Presidential elections by @inecnigeria for terribly failing to upload and transmit result of your Polling Unit real time to IReV portal?
“Yeah, it was terribly disappointing. We all learnt a Big Lesson as Citizens.
“Yeah, you’re right to be acutely disappointed. Can you convert your anger to wised-up action, by not just voting on Saturday for best Candidates for Governor but also transmitting the result of your own PU to a Citizens-IReV portal?
“Register PU here: http://collate.africa
“Thankfully, our proactive Tech folks, @OoTheNigerian & @ozoesono supported by @ijebu_developer, @dotMsadiq & @Abiodun199505 designed and launched: http://collate.africa
“Check it out and Register your PU on http://collate.africa and then help to spread it far and wide.”
Checks on the portal by Naija News House showed that anyone can upload election results on it from their polling unit across the country once one has registered with an email address, state, local government area and polling unit.
