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With a cryptic signal message, the decision, last week, by some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House Representatives to vote against electronic transmission of results in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, might have been influenced by Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
By implication, the senator representing Lagos Central in the upper chamber of the legislature, it was believed, subtly passed on the message of her husband and one of the national leaders of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by voting against electronic transfer of results.
A member of the House of Representatives from Chinkun/Kajuru Federal Constituency area of Kaduna State, Hon Yakubu Barde, who identified the role of the APC leader in the voting pattern of the lower chamber of the National Assembly, described the moment the game changed as akin to the biblical anecdote of the âvoice of Jacob and hand of Esauâ.
E-Transmission of Results and Senators Unclean Hands
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Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that disagreement on electromic transmission of election results appear to be the only clause that has caused a sharp division among federal lawmakers along partisan lines and increased hostility over the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021
In a clear hint at the direction of the 2023 national elections, different organs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), particularly its legislators in the National Assembly began a serious nationwide campaign to mobilise Nigerians against the attempt by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to have least guiding conduct of elections fashioned to achieve certain predetermined goals.
Legislators from the main opposition PDP leaked what was described as surreptitious moves to include clauses outside what they claimed was discussed and approved by committees. In the Senate, the Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chaired by Senator Kabiru Gayahad a difficult time trying to explain a ‘st