Electronic Transmission of Election Results: What Do Nigerians Want?
I wrote this piece on the day the Nigerian Senate recently reconvened for its emergency session on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2026 . Incidentally, they passed the bill on the same day, few minutes after I had ended my piece. Suffice it to say that their position on e-transmission of election results validated my questions. I posted this piece on my Facebook pages the same day, and I'm posting it here again for posterity sake and of course as part of my collections in my 'Mind, Body and Country' blog. Emergency Session and the Controversy The Senate today reconvened for an emergency session on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2026. The session was necessitated by the controversy generated at their last sitting, where it was reported that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio , spearheaded the rejection of the e-transmission of election results. Akpabio, refuting the report, said the Chamber approved e-transmission as contained in the Electoral Act. The Provision B...