By empowering electoral officers to use manually completed and duly signed Form EC8A as the primary source for collation and declaration of results in areas experiencing network failures, the Senate has created a loophole in the Electoral Act for election riggers to manipulate election results and truncate the will of Nigerians, Ejiofor Alike reports
Despite public outcry, the Senate last Tuesday refused to make real-time electronic transmission of election results mandatory in Nigeria’s electoral law.
The federal lawmakers had earlier come under fire for the grave betrayal of public trust by passing an amended Electoral Act that rejected mandatory real-time electronic upload of election results from polling units.