INEC Kick-starts Preparation for 2027 Elections The Independent National Electoral Commission has ventured on the formulation of its Election Project Plan in preparation for the 2027 general election, a top official in the commission revealed this.
The official stated that lessons learnt from the 2023 general election were being utilized to the planning for 2027.
He said that the commission was already updating its election templates for the upcoming election cycle, with the goal of reforming the efficiency and reliability of its processes.
The official said, “The formulation further contains the production of the 2027 – 2031 Strategic Plan to replace the current 2022 – 2026 Strategic Plan, which terminates in December next year.
“An important aspect of the current effort is the preparation of another circumstantial document that will act as a bridge between 2026 and 2027 – the general election year – which the current 2022- 2026 plan does not cover. This particular document will provide the foundation for the 2027 EPP document.
“While the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan stressed the institutionalisation of the commission’s processes for the delivery of its mandate, focusing on capacity building, promotion of professionalism, backing synergy amongst departments and changing efficient mobilisation and utilisation of resources in the midst of others over a four-year cycle, the EPP is a comprehensive document that focuses solely on a general election.”
Findings by Saturday Round Table reported that the EPP was foremost produced for the 2015 general election. Since then, EPPs were produced for subsequent 2019 and 2023 general elections.
Following the challenges encountered during the 2023 general election, INEC is refining its processes to ensure smoother operations in future polls.
According to discloses, the commission confronted a few logistical and technical hurdles during the 2023 general election while administering a voter base of 93,469,008 registered voters across 176,846 polling units.
The election saw the deployment of over 1.5 million personnel, containing polling staff, supervisors, and security personnel, along with 182,491 vehicles to facilitate the voting process across Nigeria’s polyglot terrains.
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Reports indicated that despite the extensive preparations, one of the significant issues during the 2023 election was the difficulty in uploading presidential election results to the INEC Result Viewing portal.
While the system successfully administered uploads for the National Assembly elections, the presidential election results competed with put off due to technical glitches.
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The root cause of the issue was traced to a configuration problem that prevented the system from properly mapping the presidential results, which are countrywide, as challenged to state-specific elections.
The commission later addressed the issue with software updates, and the foremost presidential election result sheet was successfully uploaded later in the evening on the election day.
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Published 3/15/2025