1st LD: Nigeria's electoral body to commence final collation of ballots 48 hours after election: electoral chief
Xinhua, March 30, 2015 Adjust font size:
Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will commence the final collation of votes cast across the West African country 48 hours after the presidential and national assembly elections were held, the electoral chief, Attahiru Jega, said on Sunday.
"You start counting 48 hours when substantial amount of polling units have concluded elections," the official said while addressing a world press conference at the national collation center in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
The electoral umpire said, as of the time of the press conference, no resident electoral commissioner deployed in the states across Nigeria had yet arrived at the national collation center to commence the final collation.
"We will declare results when they have been collated from the states," he added. Endi