By Henry Umoru
The Motion for Credible Elections (MCE) has condemned in very robust phrases the choice of the Senate to take away and refuse the obligatory digital transmission of election outcomes as proposed by the Electoral Act Modification Invoice 2026.
The physique has referred to as on the Senate to right away reinstate and cross the obligatory digital transmission of ends in the Electoral Act Modification Invoice 2026, in addition to publicly account for these members who opposed this clause, so they don’t use the quilt of the Senate or Home of Representatives to keep away from public scrutiny and rationalization of their positions to Nigerians.
In response to MCE, Nigerians should be sure that they’re made to account for using legislative powers as a system they’ve benefited from within the final twenty six years since Nigeria turned a democratic state.
Leaders of the Steering Council of the newly launched MCE embrace: Dr Usman Bugaje, Prof Pat Utomi, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Barr Femi Falana, SAN, Amb Nkoyo Toyo, Hajia (Dr) Bilikisu Magoro, Comrade Ene Obi, Comrade Salisu Mohammed, Comrade Bala Zakka, amongst others.
In a press release signed on Saturday in Abuja by MCE Media Coordinator, Comrade James Ezema, the group described the motion of the Senate as not lawmaking, however a deliberate democratic sabotage in opposition to the aspiration of the folks of the nation as Obligatory digital transmission of outcomes is just not controversial.
In response to the group, the transmission course of is a minimal safeguard in opposition to outcome tampering, poll rewriting, and post-election fraud, warning that any legislature that blocks it’s overtly defending a system that thrives on electoral corruption, stolen mandates and manufactured elections.
The assertion learn, “A newly launched coalition of teams of main Political Activists in Nigeria, Motion for Credible Elections (MCE) categorically rejects the choice of the Nationwide Meeting by means of the Senate to take away and refuse the obligatory digital transmission of election outcomes as proposed by the Electoral Act Modification Invoice 2026.
“The motion of the lawmakers is taken into account by MCE as a direct assault by the Nationwide Meeting to subvert the proper of Nigerians to freely select the leaders of their alternative. By rejecting the obligatory transmission of election outcomes from the polling models and different vital clauses, the Nationwide Meeting has chosen opacity over transparency, manipulation over credibility, and elite conspiracy over the sovereign will of the folks.
“This isn’t lawmaking—it’s deliberate democratic sabotage in opposition to the aspiration of the folks of our nation as Obligatory digital transmission of outcomes is just not controversial. It’s a minimal safeguard in opposition to outcome tampering, poll rewriting, and post-election fraud. Any legislature that blocks it’s overtly defending a system that thrives on electoral corruption, stolen mandates and manufactured elections.
“MCE due to this fact needs to make it clear that there isn’t any acceptable justification for rejecting obligatory transmission apart from the worry of the real votes and mandate of the voters.
“What this rejection means to many who’ve come collectively beneath the banner of this new coalition is that the established order the place outcomes are weak to manipulation between polling models and collation centres will stay and be exploited in 2027; If we fail to offer the transparency desired by Nigerians, apathy will develop and this in flip will undermine public confidence in elections with citizen selecting to specific their votes in different methods.
“Not solely has the failure of clear elections outcomes rewarded impunity and electoral fraud, it has enabled the courts to change into the software of mandate buy by the very best bidders and appendage of the manager, not independently working to entrench the rule of legislation.
“Whereas elite state seize has change into the order of the day in Nigeria, the place impunity and oppression reign, this anti democratic motion of the lawmakers present an unwillingness to submit themselves to clear competitors in determined bid to be beneficiaries of the corrupt techniques enthroned since 1999.
“This resolution confirms what Nigerians already know that the Nigerian political class are afraid of technological transparency as a result of it exposes their shaddy and corrupt dealings throughout elections.
“MCE, as a residents’ motion and vanguard of teams in search of to see the enthronement of credible elections in Nigeria, is all-inclusive and a non-partisan civic platform of Nigerians from each stroll of life—youth, ladies, individuals with disabilities, employees, professionals, grassroots communities, civil society teams, faith-based actors, and Nigerians within the diaspora- and united by one easy precept that each vote should rely and be protected.
“The emergent coalition convened by eminent activists, who embrace Comrade Ayuba Wabba, Dr Usman Bugaje, Barr Femi Falana, SAN, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Prof Pat Utomi, Dr Bilikisu Magoro, Amb Nkoyo Toyo, Comrade Shehu Sanni, Comrade Ene Obi, Veteran Olawale Okunniyi amongst others can also be resolved to not be beholden to any celebration or politician, because the MCE belongs to Nigerian Residents whose votes have been rigged and stolen from one election to the opposite since 1999.
“To this finish, MCE calls for:- the next from the Nationwide Meeting: Instantly reinstate and cross the obligatory digital transmission of ends in the Electoral Act Modification Invoice 2026.
“Publicly account for these members who opposed this clause, so they don’t use the quilt of the Senate or Home of Representatives to keep away from public scrutiny and rationalization of their positions to Nigerians.
” Be sure that they’re made to account for using legislative powers as a system they’ve benefited from within the final 26 years since Nigeria turned a democratic state.
“Because the vanguard of the collective motion of Nigerians for credible elections in 2027, we’re calling on all our companions and allies to affix ‘The Occupy NASS Protest’ scheduled for Monday ninth February 2026.
“By this medium, we’re calling on our teaming companions and allies to not settle for any try to rollback the deliberate Occupy NASS mass protest however to mobilize and proceed peacefully on a mass civic motion to defend the favored yearnings of Nigerians in resisting any try to return Nigeria to the darkish days of guide manipulation and backroom outcomes arising from the distortions occasioned by glitches and interferences with the desire of the voters.
“Once more, as we converge in Lagos on Monday, ninth February, as earlier scheduled to deal with the world on the results of one other rigged election in Nigeria, We name on Nigerians in every single place—college students, employees, merchants, professionals, ladies, youth, group leaders, the media, and the worldwide group—to face up and communicate out and be counted within the emergency Occupy NASS mass protests holding in Abuja
“Lastly, we want to assert that it ought to be attainable, along with obligatory transmission, to point out that outcomes transmitted electronically are in sync with the documentation on the polling unit. MCEN believes that, along with the transmission, there ought to be the Voters Verifiable Paper Audit Path (VVPAT) as is the observe in India as a result of democracy dies when votes are allowed to be stolen. It’s time to finish electoral rigging in Nigeria!”
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