The Senate has clarified that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Result viewing portal (IReV) is not an electronic voting platform. Adeniyi Adegbonmire, chairman of the Senate ad hoc panel on the review of the 2026 electoral bill, spoke during an appearance on Arise News on Thursday.
Adegbonmire also dismissed claims that lawmakers scrapped the portal for the 2027 general election. The senator said the upper chamber never resolved to discontinue the use of IReV, stressing that the portal remains a platform for publishing results already declared at polling units.
“The senate never said INEC should not use IReV for the 2027 elections,” he said.
“What people must understand is that IReV is not an e-voting platform. It is software developed by INEC to publicise results that have been manually counted and declared at polling units.”
“People need to understand what real-time means. Real-time transmission can only happen if INEC adopts an e-voting system. For now, INEC does not have the capability for e-voting,” he said.