Osun 2026: Is IReV reclaiming its title as Nigeria’s electoral game changer?, By Samson Itodo
Nevertheless, the Osun experience reaffirmed the value of electronic transmission and real-time public access to polling-unit results as safeguards against manipulation and as mechanisms for strengthening transparency, auditability and citizen oversight.
The failure to upload presidential polling-unit results as expected became one of the defining controversies of the election, severely damaging public confidence in a technology that had come to symbolize transparency and integrity in results management.
The promise of this innovative technological tool was simple but equally transformative: make the polling-unit result visible to the public to deter manipulation, substitution and manufacture of fake results during collation at the ward, local government and state levels.
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