2027: INEC fixes November 28 for mock accreditation, voting

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INEC has fixed November 28, 2026, for a nationwide mock accreditation and voting exercise to test its upgraded BVAS and e-transmission systems for 2027. Read More:…

The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed November 28, 2026, for a nationwide mock accreditation and voting exercise ahead of the 2027 general elections to test upgrades to its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System and electronic results transmission.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, disclosed this on Thursday during a dialogue at Chatham House in London, organised in partnership with the Kimpact Development Initiative, with the theme, “Nigeria’s 2027 Elections: Democratic Trajectory and Regional Stability Beyond the Ballot.”

According to a press statement issued in Abuja and signed by Adedayo Oketola, the Chief Press Secretary and Media Adviser to the INEC chairman, Amupitan said the exercise would simulate the presidential election and enable the commission to assess the effectiveness of its accreditation and electronic transmission systems before the polls.

“On the 28th of this month, we will conduct a mock accreditation and voting exercise across all states of the Federation to simulate the presidential election and verify that we have gotten both accreditation and electronic result transmission right,” he said.

The INEC chairman also disclosed that the commission had introduced technical safeguards to prevent inaccurate polling unit results and figures reflecting over-voting from being uploaded to its Result Viewing Portal.

He said a post-2023 audit conducted by the commission identified collation centres, rather than polling units, as the major source of election result management problems.

“We found that the core problem of election result management and declaration in Nigeria is not even at the polling unit—it is at the collation centres.

“We have now devised a technical safeguard: if a result is not accurate at the polling unit, it will not go to IReV at all,” he said.

According to him, the commission decided to upgrade its existing electoral technology rather than introduce an entirely new system, considering the limited time before the 2027…

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