Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has released 62 per cent of the results from the Edo gubernatorial election on its Result Viewing Portal(iRev).
A visit to the iRev website as of the time of filing this report around 4.45pm disclosed that 2,809 results out of 4,519 polling units where elections were conducted in the State have been uploaded.
Grassroots Parrot had reported that voting was expected to conclude after the last person in the queue cast their vote by 2:30 p.m.
However, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced an extension of voting time in areas where the process started late, with the closing time to be determined by individual polling units in the affected areas.
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In Ovia South West Local Government Area (LGA), results from 15 out of 195 Polling Units (PUs) had been uploaded. Similarly, in Etsako East LGA, results from 12 out of 166 PUs had been uploaded.
Also, in Ikpoba-Okha LGA results for 68 out of 641 polling units were already uploaded to the dedicated portal.
Additional results will be uploaded to the portal via the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) as soon as voting and result counting are completed at all polling units statewide.