Mr.

Osaze-Uzzi spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.

According to him, the prescribed mode of collating results is manual, and he added that Section 64(4) of the Electoral Act empowers INEC to commence collating the results upon verification and confirmation of the result.

“The prescribed mode is manual collation; it did not say you should collate electronically. There’s nowhere in the law or guidelines that you will see electronic (collation of results),” Osaze-Uzzi said.

“Go back to Section 64, paragraph 4.. Verification and confirmation that’s what is required with the electronically transmitted. But collation is still manual.

“Before you start that process, you must go to the electronic ones and say, ‘Are these figures consistent?’ It does not say to start collating from the BVAS-transmitted results. It says to start collation. "In that sense, it’s a manual process,” he added.