Chimamanda, stop writing beer parlour gossips as fact and presenting highly unresearched allegations in op-eds.
…all political parties would already have the results in their hands through their party agents. What remains is the collation of already known results at the levels of the ward, local government, state, and finally at the National Collation Centre for the presidential election. Non-transmission of the results that political parties already have in their hands electronically in real time, does not invalidate the actual election that took place.
I will advise Chimamanda to stick to her literary work and stop pontificating on Nigerian electoral matter as if an expert, especially when she obviously distorted the letters and spirit of the Electoral Act. As a writer, it behoves on her to have first gone ahead to read and distil the Electoral Act properly before misleading her American audience and obviously to whip up further emotions amongst her Obidient crew.to transmit election results electronically in real time.
I believe Adichie and her Obidient crew have this idea that the electronic transmission of results is an angelic feature of the Electoral Act. This is far from the truth. Rather, it is just an add-on to an already set electoral procedure. To buttress this point, as recent as the 10th of March, a Federal High Court in Abuja held that it is only the Independent National Electoral Commission that is empowered by law to determine the mode of collating and transmitting election results.
Justice Nwite further held that the collation and transfer of election results manually in the 2023 general elections cannot be said to be contrary to the relevant provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022.
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