Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says combined digital and guide transmission of election outcomes might be resolve challenges in election course of.
Atiku stated that such combos would quantity to a doubtlessly menace to the nation’s electoral system.
He stated this in an interview with newsmen shortly after a go to to retired Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Former Army President, in Minna on Tuesday.
He stated that Nigerians had anticipated a totally digital transmission of election outcomes in any respect ranges.
In keeping with him, the hybrid system might compromise the integrity of elections and create pointless confusion within the collation of outcomes.
“What Nigerians have been anticipating was digital transmission of outcomes throughout the varied ranges of the election.
“What we obtained as a substitute was a mix of digital and guide transmission, which goes to trigger extra confusion and will jeopardise our electoral transmission system,” he stated.
He pressured that real-time digital transmission of outcomes remained the most suitable choice for credible elections within the nation.
In the meantime, the Senate has constituted a 12-member Electoral Act Convention Committee to harmonise variations within the proposed amendments to the Electoral Act.
The committee is predicted to interface with its counterpart within the Home of Representatives to reconcile discrepancies within the modification invoice and produce a unified model for remaining legislative approval.
President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, introduced the members of the committee on Tuesday throughout an emergency plenary session.
The convention committee will evaluation areas of divergence between the variations handed by each chambers of the Nationwide Meeting and resolve contentious clauses earlier than presenting a harmonised doc for adoption.
Atiku additionally referred to as on opposition political events to unite and collectively pursue electoral reforms, notably on the difficulty of digital transmission of outcomes.
“There’s a want for all opposition political events to return collectively to pursue this subject.
“We should always not permit it to relaxation the place some folks need it to relaxation. I don’t assist that,” he added.
Atiku stated that the go to to Babangida was purely a customary certainly one of paying respect to a statesman.
He dismissed speculations about his political ambitions forward of the 2027 common elections.
“The problem of whether or not I might be contesting the 2027 election has not even arisen,” he stated.
The previous vp disclosed that, his occasion, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), was at present centered on strengthening its buildings nationwide.
In keeping with him, the ADC is working to make sure that its organisational framework is firmly rooted from the ward degree, native authorities and state ranges as much as the nationwide degree.
“We’re busy mobilising folks and registering them on the identical time,” he stated.
Atiku added that the ADC structure doesn’t present for zoning of political places of work.
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