The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) appears to have quietly moved its 2023 presidential result sheets to a new host, and most of its 2023 governorship records with them. Thre
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) appears to have quietly moved its 2023 presidential result sheets to a new host, and most of its 2023 governorship records with them. Three states’ governorship results are still stuck at an older address.
Technext checked claims made by Mundx Analytics on X that INEC had lost control of the domain previously used to deliver its 2023 polling-unit result sheets. Checked hours after the post, the presidential results loaded, but from a different address than the one Mundx described.
In an X post and a three-minute video that drew tens of thousands of views, Mundx said INEC used inecelectionresults.net to host result sheets linked from the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV). It said the domain was dropped after it expired on Apr 25, 2025, and that someone registered it at 6:37 p.m. UTC that day. It now points to a domain parking system that earns money from advertising traffic.
Mundx revealed it found at least 470,619 result records pointing to the expired domain, more than half of the records expected from the 2023 general election. It said it emailed INEC more than a month ago and got no action. Meanwhile, Technext has not independently verified these figures.
What Technext found on INEC’s websiteThe 2023 presidential results, checked in full, now load from irev-results.lon1.digitaloceanspaces.com. Of the 31 states that held gubernatorial elections in the 2023 cycle, result links for 28 now point to the same host.
The three exceptions are Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo. Their links still point to an older address, iiirev.incportals.com. These are the states that held governorship elections on Nov 11, 2023, separately from the main 2023 general election calendar.
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The five earlier governorship elections still listed on the portal are available on the new host: Edo 2020, Osun 2022, Ekiti 2022, Anambra 2021 and Ondo 2020.
The newest records sit on a third domain, inc-s3-cache.incportals.com. These are the governorship elections in Osun 2026, Ekiti 2026, Anambra 2025, Ondo 2024 and Edo 2024, plus the 2026 House of Assembly, Senate, House of Representatives, councillor and chairmanship results. Clicking these links downloads the files to the device instead of opening them in the browser.
So a citizen using IReV now touches at least three hosts, and the 2023 records for three states are on the one that still fails.
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Technext confirmed that the sheets open at the new address. It has not compared them with the originals, so it cannot say whether the documents are identical to those first uploaded.
Moreover, the “lon1” label in the address suggests the files sit in a London data centre. If so, the records have moved from one foreign host to another. Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, transferring personal data abroad requires a lawful basis, and INEC has not publicly said what it relies on.
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INEC has not publicly acknowledged the incident or responded to Mundx’s post as at the time of publishing this report. Mundx has also not acknowledged the recent change covered in this story.
The Electoral Act 2026 requires INEC to maintain a continuously updated National Electronic Register of Election Results. INEC has yet to explain how the records now distributed across three domains, including one with links that still fail, fit into that register.
