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Former Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) and lawyer, Mike Igini, has warned that the controversial proviso qualifying real-time electronic transmission of polling unit results could cost a majority of federal lawmakers their seats in 2027.
Speaking via a statement, Igini argued that earlier Assemblies, “for reasons of convenience and party loyalty,” declined to address “well-documented election rigging vulnerabilities” in the law, including the kind of proviso now introduced by the Senate to qualify direct electronic transmission.
He urged the lawmakers to draw lessons from the fate of their predecessors, who, he said, suffered electoral defeat after refusing to close well-known loopholes in the nation’s electoral framework.
“As the National Assembly convenes to reconcile the divergent versions of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, particularly with regard to the unequivocal demand by the Nigerian populace for mandatory electronic transmission of election results directly from polling units to the INEC Result Viewing Portal, IReV, I urge Honourable and Distinguished Senators to heed the salutary lessons from the misfortunes that befell their predecessors,” he said.
“Such lacunae were exploited to subvert polling-unit outcomes during their tenure by those who denied them re-election party tickets, rendering them victims of the very defects they declined to remedy,” he added.
Presenting what he described as empirical evidence from electoral cycles between 2007 and 2023, Igini said a majority of incumbent legislators denied party tickets by governors and party leaders, even after securing alternative platforms, were defeated during collation through manipulation of polling unit results.
“The 10th Assembly now stands perilously close to replicating this lamentable pattern.Those Members not favoured or not in the good books of their respective state governors or party leaders will foreseeably be denied tickets and, given the prospects of an unsecured e-transmission of polling unit results, will find it exceedingly difficult to translate constituency endorsement, however strong, into electoral victory,” he warned. See more
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