Collation Officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission at the Kubwa Registration Area Centre have begun both manual and electronic collation of results, following the conclusion of voting in the FCT Area Council Elections.

Collation of results began at 6:15 pm, after Presiding Officers converged on the LEA Primary School, Kubwa II, where a majority of the electoral officers entered the results into the provided form EC8A.

Our correspondent gathered that the hybrid method of collation was to ensure a correspondence between results uploaded to the INEC Results Viewing Portal from the polling units through the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, and the results on the manual form EC8A.

“All the POs you see already uploaded their results with their BVAS. What they are doing is to collate, using both the manual and the electronic devices, the laptops you see.

“So that will make sure that the results are the same,l; that they tally. The results already uploaded from polling units would already be on the IReV.

“Then from here, they will now go to our office at the Area Council, where they will now be further collated,” a Registration Area Supervisor who declined to speak on record told our correspondent.

Another Supervisor, Mrs Okoye Adeiza, told our correspondent that those with the laptops were from Operations, while the BVAS represented ICT, noting that both teams were working to ensure that results were confirmed and matched with results from the polling units.

“This is Operations (laptops), this (BVAS) is ICT. We are working together. It’s to make sure that the results match. From here, we now take them to the local government,” she stated.

PUNCH Online reports that the Area Council election was held across six Area Councils and 62 wards of the FCT, to elect Chairmen and Councillors.

Voting commenced in most parts of Kubwa Ward behind the scheduled 8:30 am, with many units recording low voter turnout.