The upper chamber had adjourned plenary for two weeks last Wednesday after passing the Electoral Act amendment bill, to enable lawmakers to engage with heads of...
Lecky stressed that Nigeria lacks the nationwide infrastructure—particularly reliable mobile network coverage in many rural polling units—necessary to support real-time electronic transmission without risking widespread failures...
According to the group, the transmission process is a minimum safeguard against result tampering, ballot rewriting, and post-election fraud, warning that any legislature that blocks it...
Akpabio said the concern was that mandating real-time transmission could lead to legal disputes if network failures occurred during elections.
83 ViewsThe Nigerian Senate held a closed-door executive session on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, to deliberate on the committee report concerning the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal...