Afrobeats singer David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has raised fresh concerns over the transmission of results from Saturday’s Osun State governorship election after the number of polling-unit results uploaded to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Result Viewing Portal remained unchanged for almost two hours.
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Davido, who has openly supported his uncle, Governor Ademola Adeleke, in the election, said 3,292 out of the expected 3,763 polling-unit results had been uploaded before further transmission apparently stopped.
The figure represents about 87.5 per cent of the expected polling-unit results, leaving 471 outstanding.
“INEC IREV uploads have been stuck for almost 2 hours now. 3292 out of 3763 results submitted and then silence. This is not acceptable!” Davido wrote on X.
He directly questioned the electoral commission over the apparent pause.
“Why has the uploading stopped? @inecnigeria,” he added.
The singer’s intervention followed earlier concerns over the pace of uploads as vote counting and collation continued across Osun State.
At about 10 p.m., the IReV portal was still reported to be showing 3,292 uploaded polling-unit results, the same figure recorded at about 8:48 p.m., despite steady uploads earlier in the evening.
All 30 local government areas of the state were also reported to have at least one polling unit whose result sheet remained outstanding on IReV.
Davido had earlier urged political party agents in polling units and wards where results were yet to appear on the portal to make copies of their results publicly available through the media.
“Please ask your party agents across the polling units, wards they’re yet to upload their results to start updating them on media!!” he said.
His repeated interventions have focused on ensuring that polling-unit results are recorded, signed and uploaded before the conclusion of the collation process.
The apparent pause has also prompted renewed online scrutiny of INEC’s Information and Communication Technology Department, with some social media users directing questions at the Commission’s ICT Director, Dr Lawrence Bayode.
INEC’s official records identify Bayode as its Director of Information and Communication Technology. He has been involved in the Commission’s election technology operations for several years.
Some online commentators sought to link Bayode personally to the technical problems that affected the uploading of presidential election results during the 2023 general election, with one circulating post questioning why he remained in charge of the ICT department and alleging that he had “supervised the glitch” experienced in 2023.
Others went further by suggesting that Bayode should be held responsible if the current Osun result-upload process were compromised.
There is, however, no evidence in the material reviewed establishing that Bayode personally caused, engineered or “supervised” any deliberate compromise of the 2023 election result-upload system, or that he is responsible for the present pause in Osun.
What is established is that Bayode, then an official in INEC’s ICT department, appeared as the Commission’s witness before the Presidential Election Petition Court in 2023 and gave evidence relating to the technical problems that affected IReV.
INEC’s subsequent official account of the 2023 incident attributed the presidential result-upload failure to an unexpected configuration problem within the IReV system.
According to the Commission, results for the Senate and House of Representatives elections were uploading normally, but the presidential election results encountered an internal server error because of the manner in which the nationwide presidential constituency had been configured and mapped in the system.
INEC said technical personnel subsequently deployed software fixes and restored the upload process, while insisting that there was no evidence that the problem resulted from intrusion or sabotage.
The Commission also maintained that the 2023 glitch did not invalidate polling-unit results because Form EC8A remained the primary polling-unit result and copies were provided to party agents and displayed at polling units.
Bayode has also previously defended the use of BVAS and IReV, arguing that technical problems such as slow uploads, server downtime or network failures should not automatically be treated as evidence of electoral fraud.
Speaking in 2025, he described IReV as a transparency platform through which members of the public can view scanned polling-unit results, while stressing that it does not itself collate or count votes.
Against that background, the online accusations directed at Bayode over the Osun election remain allegations unless evidence emerges connecting him or any other official to deliberate interference with the portal.
The immediate question raised by Davido and other election watchers remains why the IReV figure stopped at 3,292 of 3,763 polling units for an extended period and when the remaining 471 result sheets will be uploaded.
INEC had not, at the time of the concerns, provided a specific explanation for the apparent pause or indicated whether it was caused by connectivity problems, delayed uploads from polling officials, server issues or another operational factor.
The development is being closely watched because the publication of polling-unit result sheets on IReV enables political parties, election observers, journalists and members of the public to compare copies obtained at polling units with results subsequently presented during collation.
However, IReV itself does not constitute the formal collation or declaration of election results. The official outcome of the Osun governorship election remains subject to the statutory collation process and final declaration by INEC’s Returning Officer.
With 471 polling-unit result sheets still outstanding at the time Davido raised the alarm, attention remains on INEC for an explanation of the pause and completion of the remaining uploads as collation continues.
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