When President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to 2018 Electoral amendment draft, his excuse was that the document was a right thing arriving on his table...
When President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to 2018 Electoral amendment draft, his excuse was that the document was a right thing arriving on his table at a wrong time and that if signed into law it could jeopardise 2019 general elections that were around the corner.
With NCC being a wing of the executive, it means the electoral body would be on the apron string of the two arms of government. The subjugation of INEC’s power to the legislature and the executives is signposting that Nigerians would still have to wait for the judiciary to pronounce winners and losers after about a year of casting their votes.
The excuse that all polling units in the country are not covered by telecommunication facilities is flimsy and so feeble to fly in a fecundating political firmament like Nigeria. Gratifyingly, INEC keep saying that it has capacity to transmit election results from every polling unit to central collation.
We should not cite examples of some developed nations that do not use electronic means in voting. Because of crooked practices that abound in Africa, the need for devising untainted means of conducting our affairs can only be emphasised to non-human creatures. When I started secondary school many years ago at Holy Family College Abak, our terminal examination results were sent straight to our parents/guardians through post offices.
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