There was outrage among political stakeholders recently over the rejection of electronic transmission of election results in the forthcoming polls.
The commission said by its processes and procedures, they are dealing with four components of Electronic Voting System which are Electronic Voter Register , Electronic Voting Machine , Electronic Voter Authentication , and Electronic Transmission of Results .
He noted that the commission has been uploading Polling Unit Results with its Smart Card Readers, the Z-pad, and other electronic solutions. It would be recalled that the initiative which first came into the equation in the eighth National Assembly led by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki who was the 13th Senate President in Nigerian history was aimed at strengthening the credibility of the electoral process and ensuring that results announced at the end of elections reflect the actual votes cast by the electorate.
The question now is, how did Saraki and his colleagues in the 8th Senate as well as the House of Representatives headed by Hon. Yakubu Dogara made the passage of the Electoral Act possible without any rancour or crisis? “Under Saraki’s watch, hardly can you get a time when a Senator insisted on a division of the Senate during voting on issues, except during voting on Constitution Amendment bills. Division of the chambers for voting during constitution amendment process is a compulsory method necessary to fulfill the provision of the constitution on the issue of two-third or three-fifth support for the issues to be amended.
Dazang revealed that the Commission was traumatised that a sister Commission which has been in the know since 2018 that INEC has the capacity and capability to transmit results electronically should come back in 2021 to attest that electronic transmission of election results is no longer possible in Nigeria.
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