Speaking on Sunday at the Citizens’ Townhall on the Electoral Act 2026 in Abuja, Professor Amupitan assured that there will be no repetition of such technical glitches in future elections.

He added that INEC has taken concrete steps to ensure that there is no disruption in the electronic transmission of results during the 2027 general elections.

Amupitan said the commission’s improved preparations and testing would ensure seamless transmission.

“The glitch is eliminated; by God’s grace, it will not surface in Nigeria,” he said.

The INEC Chairman noted that apart from delays experienced during some previous elections, the commission did not record outright transmission failure in other polls.

He explained that the legal provisions allowing alternative collation methods are merely safeguards and not an indication that the commission expects electronic transmission to fail.

“It is just a proviso, a safety. If it fails, results must still be transmitted. But our determination is that it will not fail,” the INEC boss said.

INEC To Conduct Mock Presidential Poll

According to him, INEC plans to conduct a nationwide mock presidential exercise ahead of the 2027 elections to ensure the result-transmission infrastructure can handle the scale of a national election.

Amupitan acknowledged that while the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) was tested in off-cycle governorship elections before 2023, the nationwide scale of the presidential poll 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.