Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has insisted that
Nigeria will be in trouble if the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, is barred from transmitting election results electronically ahead of the
2023 general election.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria spoke during an interview on
Channels Television’s Politics Today.
Recall that the National Assembly leadership had two weeks
ago blocked the electronic transmission of election results in Nigeria.
Falana said, “By virtue of Section 52 of the Electoral Act
amended in 2015, INEC is given unchallenged powers to devise any process to
guarantee that everybody is able to vote and so INEC is empowered to transmit
results electronically.
“When you now put it in the law that INEC shall not transmit
election results electronically, we are in trouble.
“I am sure that Nigerians are going to continue to demand
that proper things be done in order to ensure that the process we are putting
in place will guarantee fair and free elections.”
Falana’s statement is coming less than a week after former
INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, faulted the exclusion of electronic transfer
of results.
“You can’t permit INEC on one hand to use electronic voting
and not use electronic transmission of results because usually, they go as a
package,” Jega had said.
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