{"id":83499,"date":"2023-02-28T20:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:28:53","slug":"election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal","title":{"rendered":"Election results: Christian leaders bemoan INEC\u2019s stance on results portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Christian leaders of Nigeria have expressed discontent over the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s refusal to shift ground on upload of Saturday\u2019s general elections on its result portal.<\/p>\n<p>The Convener of the group, Rev Williams Okoye and other leaders disclosed this on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The group was reacting to the call by some critical stakeholders on the INEC Chairman, Prof Yakubu Mahmood, to cancel the election due to his refusal to upload results electronically.<\/p>\n<p>They stated INEC\u2019s failure to upload the election result on its results portal contradicts the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are shocked that many hours after a National election, INEC could not transmit the results as required. It is in addition to many other fundamental breaches of the electoral law, including late commencement of voting across the country, non-voting in polling units, and widespread reports of logistic failure as highlighted by foreign and domestic observers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Christian leaders of Nigeria have expressed discontent over the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s refusal to shift ground on upload of Saturday\u2019s general elections on its result portal. The Convener of the group, Rev Williams Okoye and other leaders disclosed this on Tuesday. The group was reacting to the call by some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":83498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,3128,251,254,9912],"class_list":["post-83499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-christian","tag-inec","tag-nigeria","tag-rev-williams-okoye"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Election results: Christian leaders bemoan INEC\u2019s stance on results portal - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Christian leaders of Nigeria have expressed discontent over the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s refusal ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election results: Christian leaders bemoan INEC\u2019s stance on results portal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Christian leaders of Nigeria have expressed discontent over the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s refusal ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-28T19:17:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-28T20:28:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677602863.49.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Election results: Christian leaders bemoan INEC\u2019s stance on results portal\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-28T19:17:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-28T20:28:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677602863.49.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"christian\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rev Williams Okoye\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/election-results-christian-leaders-bemoan-inecs-stance-on-results-portal\",\"name\":\"Election results: Christian leaders bemoan INEC\u2019s stance on results portal - 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