Report out indicates that the Independent National Electoral Commission will today announce the result of the presidential election. Prof Jega said that despite the extension of Saturday’s elections till Sunday in some parts of the country, the results of the presidential poll will be declared on Monday, today.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, gave the assurance as some of results from wards, local government areas and states continued to emerge on Sunday. Jega, who gave journalists an update on the conduct of the polls in Abuja, said that as of Sunday evening, results of the elections had only been completely collated in a few states and that effort are being made to let Nigerians know what the outcome is, punchng.com reports.
He said, “Some people assume that when I said 48 hours( for the release of the results), it starts from the morning the elections commenced. It is 48 hours after elections have ended, like yesterday(Saturday). “You start counting 48 hours from yesterday (Saturday) when substantial majority of the polling units ended elections.”
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