How the Situation Room works

Anyone can open the Situation Room dashboard — no account is needed.

1. 1Open /situation-room to see live totals, LGA progress, party tallies and the results feed.
2. 2Pick an election at the top of the page to switch between the Presidential/National Assembly and Governorship/State Assembly contests.
3. 3Only results approved by the state command appear publicly, so what you see is verified data.
4. 4The accredited officer directory shows the name, role, LGA, ward and polling unit of every officer covering the field.
5. 5Official notices from the state command appear on the dashboard as they are published.

You report results for your own polling unit only.

1. 1Sign in with your phone number (your phone number is also your first password — change it after first sign-in).
2. 2Go to Situation Room → Console → File report.
3. 3Choose the election, confirm your polling unit, then enter accredited voters, valid votes, rejected votes and each party's score.
4. 4Attach a clear photo of the result sheet (Form EC8A). Reports without evidence are flagged automatically.
5. 5No network? Tap Save draft — the report is stored on your phone and sent when you are back online.
6. 6Report anything suspicious under Incidents with a category, severity and photo evidence.

You supervise and verify everything inside your own ward or local government.

1. 1Console → My desk shows your coverage, how many units have reported and which are still missing.
2. 2Console → Verification lists the reports from your area awaiting checking. Verify a clean report or return it with a note.
3. 3You can file a report on behalf of a unit inside your area when a desk officer cannot.
4. 4Analytics and the Live map show ward-by-ward reporting progress in real time.
5. 5Push reminders to your officers through Comms.

Final approval sits with the state command — nothing becomes public without it.

1. 1Console → Submissions shows every report statewide with its flags and evidence.
2. 2Approve a report to publish it to the public dashboard; approval locks the record from further edits.
3. 3Console → Officers assigns or disables situation-room roles; Admin → Register all office holders opens accounts and grants access in bulk.
4. 4Console → Elections creates or opens/closes an election.
5. 5Console → Audit log records every insert, edit, verification and approval with who did it and when.
6. 6Console → Reports exports the full dataset to CSV for the campaign records.