The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given an insight into how polling unit results will be transmitted during the governorship and state house of assembly elections across the states of the federation on Saturday, March 18.

The INEC Chairman on Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, while speaking on a television programme today, said the commission had learnt valuable lessons from the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.

Earlier, controversy had reportedly trailed INEC’s failure to upload results as early as possible during the presidential election, with major opposition parties like the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour party holding on to it as one of the bases for rejecting the presidential poll result which saw Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (PAC) emerged the winner.

Okoye explained that when polls closed at the level of the various units, the Presiding Officer (PO), who superintended the polling unit would enter the scores of the various political parties in form EC8A which is the polling unit level result, adding that the PO will sign the exact result sheet and stamp it, as the Polling Unit agent or party agent if available, will also countersign and copies will be given to them and the police.