President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday, claimed that the Electoral Act, 2022, did not provide for electronic transmission of election results.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtvU5DDzTGE

Lawan made the claim while contributing to a motion sponsored by Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, representing Kwara Central Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on the controversies trailing the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

The President of the Senate, said that what was passed by the National Assembly was snapping of election results and transferring to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Senator Oloriegbe, in his motion, asked the Senate to urge all political actors, leaders and every Nigerian to remain calm and allow collation and announcement of the presidential and National Assembly elections results to continue based on the provisions of the Electoral Act.

Senator Sani Musa, from Niger State, said that since Nigerians did not vote electronically, the issue of asking INEC to transmit it electronically was unnecessary because the Electoral Act didn’t mandate the electoral body to do so.

However, the debate generated controversy among the lawmakers along party lines, as the PDP senators disagreed and demanded that the motion be stepped down.

The Minority Whip of the Senate, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, while contributing, asked the INEC to follow the Electoral Act or the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Speaking, Senator Uche Ekwunife, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, representing Anambra Central, also insisted that INEC should be asked to stick to the Electoral Act.

Senator Biodun Olujimi, also a member of the opposition PDP, appealed for peace, urging Nigerians to wait patiently so that the matter would be resolved without plunging the country into avoidable chaos.

Furthermore, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele of the ruling APC, while speaking on the issue, urged INEC to do the right thing based on the provisions of Electoral Act, appealing to Nigerians to be patient with INEC to complete the process.

He also called on the Judiciary to do the right thing, pointing out that as long as the right thing was done, all agitations would be assuaged and peace would reign.

The Deputy Senate Whip, Aliyu Sabi, in his position, appealed to Nigerians to allow the process to proceed so that democracy would be strengthened.

Many of the lawmakers made contributions, in support of the motion, leading to its approval, after the President of the Senate put it to voice vote.

In his closing remarks on the motion, Lawan urged any one who was not satisfied with the verdict of INEC to go to court but not cause trouble in the country.

https://leadership.ng/no-electronic-transmission-of-result-in-electoral-act-lawan/

You're a leader sir

Senate President Lawan should have made this clarification long ago in the build-up to the general elections instead allowing INEC Chairman Yakubu to deceive gullible Nigerians about his BVAS machine.

Why now?

Lobatan

In order to be progressive in life, aligning with those who sabi is a short cut to success.

We did it. Triple winning now

Congrats to the president elect and his vice

Fat headed bastard

Congratulations to the jagaban, a victory well deserved, we the progressive have seen this coming the very day you show interest to lead this great nation to a renewed Hope.

We know that this is the exact reason you were made senate president.
Rubber stamp of whatever the party wants. We're not surprised

Lawan is deceiving himself, it was in the electoral act, it was even acknowledged in the article by the Senators..

This obviously cant stand.. the electoral act says, polling unit result would be snapped and uploaded on IREV where results would be taken from..

Nigerians are patienly waiting for those polling unit result to be contested and not that thief you declared as president..

Thank you for clearing the mindset of many Nigerians

Ok

Lol the country Otilo ...

They have started. Medicine after death. Lol

With all the noise from zombidients all Obi could get was a distant third. You accused Tinubu of everything yet he proved to you all that he is the most strategic politician the country ever produced.

Anyway Tinubu is the choice of we progressive youth, we know his worth and capacity hence we stood by him against all fake propaganda spreading by the born to hate children of doom.

God bless the president elect BAT
God bless Nigeria

I have always advocated for one Nigeria but with this daylight robbery I will support any group wishing to separate from this joke of a country.

Can Tinubu fight corruption, can he organize free and fair election thats if he's not killed by the Northeners very soon. This country has moved 50 years backward.

People should leave that hell while they still can cos it's going to get hotter.

It's time for Niger Delta to separate from this joke called Nigeria.

Sai Jagaban,now their wailing continues.They were mocking Baba,but the Jagaban is always focus on where he is going and can't be distracted.
May your reign usher a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria that all of us even your political opponents will be proud of 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Then the new electoral law is useless.
Now there's absolutely no need voting in future elections.
votes dont could after all.

Wike you're free to write results on march 11 and beyond.

Nigeria is finished

They said Nigerians won't vote Muslim-Muslim, that Tinubu is a fake Muslim.

That the North will divide muslim votes.

Yet Tinubu won.

I will drink your tears

Christians are minority in Nigeria, and will forever be.

After Tinubu, a Muslim-Muslim ticket will rule Nigeria again, if you don't want to be a Nigerian, you can japaa to AfghanEastern

So what this means is that the president of Nigeria, The Legislature, The Independent Nation Electoral Commission and the whole governance structure of the country, came together to fool the citizens of this country since uptil the elections day, folks were told that results would be transmitted electronically!?

You as the government, promised the people that the results of the elections will be transmitted electronically and when you did your internal pollings before the election and found out that the ruling partys candidate was going to loose to an opponent from an unfavorable party, you secretly decided to do away with the BVAS!?

This country is being run by criminals

Ok na.

In 2019 it was described a low turn out for voters with 29 million voters Buhari winning with 15 million votes and Atiku 11million others 3 million how come in 2023 with a higher turn out we are having 21 million voters INEC and APC should tell us were they kept our votes a stolen mandate can never stand

Asiwaju pepper dem o

Useless corntree

Please educate them.

The truth is we are all in this together.

Losing to an opponent hurts, but las las, everybody go dey alright.

GOD BLESS BOLA AHMED TINUBU

Even the snapping of the polling units results are not snap and upload

SHAME ON NIGERIA... DIRTY NATION

What about the list of people that voted against electronic transmission of result.

I think its there. It was voted in