2027: INEC Vows Flawless Polls, Says 2023 IReV Glitches ‘Eliminated’

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the technical glitches which dogged the electronic transmission of results during the 2023 general election will not recur in 2027.

Speaking on Saturday at the citizens’ town hall on the Electoral Act 2026 in Abuja, INEC Chairman, Joash Amupitan, said the commission has eliminated the lapses that hindered the real-time upload of polling unit results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) during the 2023 presidential election.

Amupitan expressed confidence that enhanced preparations, rigorous testing, and improved technological safeguards would guarantee seamless transmission in future polls.
“The glitch is eliminated; by God’s grace, it will not surface in Nigeria,” he declared.

According to him, while the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) had been deployed in off-cycle governorship elections prior to 2023, the scale of the presidential election exposed gaps in stress-testing across states.
“Election anywhere in the world is now about technology, but before deploying any technology, it is important to test it thoroughly,” he said. “We will try to give Nigerians a near-perfect election.”
The INEC chairman also clarified that provisions in the law allowing alternative collation methods are merely safeguards and do not suggest an expectation of system failure.
“It is just a proviso, a safety. If it fails, results must still be transmitted. But we determine that it will not fail during my tenure,” Amupitan assured.