“The Senate passed real-time transmission of election results from polling units in the ongoing amendment of the Electoral Act,” the Senate Minority Caucus has explained.
The Senate reportedly rejected a proposal on Wednesday to require the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, to electronically transmit all election results.
Opposition MPs, including Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and Natasha Akpoti, among others, stated at a news conference on Thursday that the plan was not rejected and emphasized that the Senate passed results transmission rather than transfer.
Speaking to journalists on behalf of the opposition MPs, Abaribe stated, “We felt that it is necessary to clarify what happened yesterday to put the record straight.”
“The transfer of results, or the 2022 Act, was not passed by the Senate yesterday. We were successful in transmitting the results.
“I must make this very clear. As senatorial district representatives, everyone of us came here with the confidence of our senatorial zones.
“We went into the closed-section to clean up everything so that we could pass it without animosity when we returned to plenary.”
We all agreed on Section 63, which is the electronic transmission of results, at our executive session, the Senate’s electoral committee, and the Senate’s ad hoc committee, I can guarantee you. Not a transfer, but a send was approved.
“What is in the 2022 Act is transfer, and we don’t want a law that is so ambiguous that anyone could misunderstand it.”
“We desire an explicit, succinct, and straightforward law. Electricity is used to transmit the results.
