Igini, who previously served as Resident Electoral Commissioner for Cross River State, cautioned that the controversial amendment requiring conditions for real-time transmission of polling unit results represents what he called “institutional self-harm” by federal lawmakers.
Speaking as the National Assembly moves to reconcile different versions of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, Igini urged senators and House members to learn from their predecessors who paid a heavy political price for leaving electoral loopholes open.
Igini argued that previous assemblies, driven by partisan calculations, refused to close known vulnerabilities in election laws—vulnerabilities that were later exploited against them when they fell out of favour with governors and party bosses.