₦airaland Forum

Exousiang01:
I don't think David has any bragging right to even open his mouth.

We are talking about a man who today cannot travel by road to his village due to the condition of the road.
After over 16years in the Senate with 8 years as Senate president. Aside JoyFM his private radio station, even he himself cannot point to anything he has done for his senatorial district in over 16 years.
I heard he went about promising to build a mortuary for a community, the community has not hospital. Even the mortuary e still no build

Whether Mark did something for his people or not is a separate issue, feel free to create a thread for that.

Please don’t distract or deflect.

Mark is simply reminding Akpabio of his legislative duties. His job as a senator is to listen to what Nigerians are demanding and make laws that reflect those demands. Period.


Nigerians want electronic transmission made mandatory. His duty was to legislate...not speak for INEC.

Is he an INEC official?

Burob:
ofunaofu answer the question since u said it must be mandatory.

Simple yes, or no.

Is that comment doing the talking for you?

Because you’ve yet to explain why you’re so vehemently against electronic transmission of elections.

It’s simple....fix the glitch.

Akpabio is mæd man roaming aimlessly, sent to do the biding of a notorious drug baron

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday expressed deep concern over the confusion and contradictory narratives emerging from the Senate regarding the amendment to the 2022 Electoral Act, particularly on electronic transmission of results, threatening mass boycott, if e- transmission real time is not adopted.

Joe Ajaero, president of the union, in a statement on Sunday, described the lack of clarity as likely to “undermine public trust”, adding that ” this is deeply troubling for our democracy”.

Read also: Senate’s rejection of e-transmission raises fresh fears over electoral credibility ahead 2027

The NLC while stressing that Nigerians deserve a transparent electoral process where their votes are not only counted but seen to be counted, urged the Senate to “provide an immediate, official, and unambiguous account of its proceedings and final decisions.”

According to the NLC, “Public records suggest the proposed amendment to mandate INEC to transmit results electronically in real-time was not adopted, with the existing discretionary provision retained”

This has generated nationwide apprehension, while subsequent explanations have only added to the confusion.

The NLC noted that such legislative ambiguity risks institutionalising doubt at the heart of our electoral integrity and echoes past controversies that have caused national distress.

The NLC also called on the senate to provide clarity and transparency, adding that “the Senate must issue a definitive statement on the exact provisions passed, clarifying the final wording and rationale.

“The National Assembly leadership must also ensure the harmonisation process produces a final bill with crystal-clear provisions; any ambiguity in the transmission and collation of results is a disservice to our democracy.


“We call on the Senate to restore legislative credibility by ensuring its processes are transparent and its outcomes clear.


“The amended Act must provide an unambiguous mandate for INEC to electronically transmit and collate results from polling units in real-time.

Read also: Electoral Act: Were opposition senators outsmarted or is Akpabio confused on e-transmission?

“The path to the 2027 elections must be built on certainty, not confusion.”

The NLC said Nigerian workers and citizens are watching closely. The NLC is working within its networks to advocate for clarity and integrity.

“We will not stand by while the trusts of Nigerians are betrayed again and the clarity of our electoral laws compromised.


“Failure to add electronic transmission real-time will lead to mass action before, during and after the election or total boycott of the Election.

“Our nation must choose the path of clarity and integrity. We need to avoid the same confusion that trailed the new Tax Acts. The time for honest, people-focused legislation is now”.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/news/article/e-transmission-of-election-results-nlc-threatens-mass-boycott-of-2027-elections/%3famp

Remi Tinubu is a mæd woman

Naijahero1:
Akpabio and his cohorts are carrying a legislative coup against Nigerians and it's capable of destroying Nigeria like Nepal, and that's what we don't want. How can a normal person at this stage of our life spend N300 billion on election and can't transmit results mandatorily in real time? These corrupt idiots are weapons fashioned against Nigeria's progress.
Nigerians should learn to hold their leaders accountable so that they don't die off.

Please allow me to make a correction. The amount is actually over N1 trillion for the conduct of the 2027 election.

Imagine allocating such a staggering amount, yet the results will not be electronically transmitted from the polling units.

RichBoy247:
Let the Engineers go and conduct the elections nah. Shameless people dey call themselves Engineers, ordinary bicycle dem no make from 1800 till date, na election dem wan engineer

I want to ask: what is your problem with mandatory electronic transmission of election results from polling units?

Why are you vehemently against it?

Apparently, everyone supports electronic transmission of election results except Tinubu, the APC, with their 30+ governors, majority of senators, house of representatives members and their hoardes of supporters

At least now we know who truly poses the greatest threat to Nigeria’s democracy and to the march toward free, fair, and credible elections.

The APC is retrogressive.

From claiming 40 million members in 2021 to boasting of just 10 million in 2026, their record in government speaks for itself.

Failure....woeful and spectacular.

Tinubu is arguably Nigeria’s most insensitive president.

He is hailed as a master strategist, but that mastery has not translated into security, infrastructure, or meaningful reforms, economic reforms and particularly electoral reforms capable of delivering free, fair, and credible elections.

If anything, his expertise seems better demonstrated in drug trafficking, identity theft, forgery, election banditry, thuggery, and agberoism: grab it, snatch it, and run with it.

Gajagojo:
The question is if we legislate for it and they come and say glitch
Do we cancel the election
I hope we can get a yes or no answer

Leave that for INEC to determine

Burob:
Don’t mind those cho cho insatiable wailers.

Burob, I want to ask: what is your problem with mandatory electronic transmission of election results from polling units?

Why are you vehemently against it?

Akpabio is a mæd man

So he’s telling us that electronic transmission can’t be made mandatory because networks might fail, insecurity exists, or the national grid could collapse.

By that reasoning, Nigeria should also suspend banking, aviation, and telecoms since all of them rely on technology too. Somehow, they function with backups, redundancies, and contingency plans.
Only elections must remain permanently analogue.

The argument that 'if some states have no network, then no results should be valid anywhere' is especially revealing. Instead of fixing gaps, the solution is to legally preserve opacity nationwide.

In fact, Akpabio has further indicted the Tinubu-led APC government himself, by claiming that insecurity has cut off nine states from the national grid and telecom services. That alone raises far bigger questions than electronic transmission ever could.

Then comes the familiar escape line, 'The Senate does not conduct elections; we only make laws.'

And that’s the point he seems to forget while asking Nigerians to direct their grievances to INEC. INEC can only act within the law. If the law makes electronic transmission mandatory, INEC is legally bound to implement it.

Why is this being framed as something new? Results were uploaded on IReV in 2023, and it worked. It only became “a problem” after a mysterious glitch, no explanation from INEC, and a court ruling that said electronic transmission was not mandatory under the Electoral Act.

Nigerians are now simply asking that it be made mandatory.

So, Akpabio, this isn’t a technical problem.
It’s a political one.

This should be a complete non-issue, but here we are in 2026, watching some supposedly reasonable adults argue against the electronic transmission of election results from polling units… in this era.

We literally did this in 2023. The then INEC chairman, Yakubu, promised that election results would be uploaded in real time. When INEC’s system “glitched,” with no explanation, and the matter went to court, the court simply ruled that electronic transmission of results was not mandatory under the Electoral Act.

Now people want it made mandatory, especially during collation, so votes won’t be stolen, and suddenly there’s resistance.

So… why exactly?

FreeStuffsNG:
He was the same guy previously arrested in Pakistan with 114 wraps of cocaine.

You don't mean it

Wonderful

Image123:
No one is vehemently against it, just logically and reasonably asking why you want millions of voters disenfranchised so badly.
We have 176,974 polling units in Nigeria. When network fails, you will still be the one to wail exceedingly.

So instead of fixing network gaps and building backups, your solution is to preserve a system that has enabled result tampering for decades?

Electronic transmission doesn’t disenfranchise voters, poor planning and bad faith do.

Sirleo05:
Watch how APC and their entire family of zombies will come out and say these travels are necessary for the country

They’ve done that. In fact, APC National Chairman Yilwatada says Tinubu’s foreign trips have pulled in $50 billion in investments.

Imagine

A former textile worker turned Pablo Escobar is mocking Peter Obi

I don’t understand their fears. You have 30 governors, the majority in the Senate and House, everything, but implementing far-reaching electoral reforms? Mandatory e-transmission of results from polling units? You’re vehemently against it.

No be juju be this?

Putindbutt:
Some people just want to talk for the sake of it, perhaps to placate done unthinking online mob. Otherwise, I can't see any rationale in NBA that's still doing vote counting in its election be talking about E-transmission. A body that can't conduct credible elections for less than 50,000 members. High level hypocrisy!

I want to ask: what is your problem with mandatory electronic transmission of election results from polling units?

Why are you vehemently against it?

Lies from the pit of hell, packaged as praise to soothe the egos of Tinubu, APC, and their hordes of Agbadoos.

yyoomy63:
Lack of proper understanding of the electoral act amendment is leading the gullible OBIdient to meaningless quest.
INEC can transmit result where it’s convenient and adopt the manual transmission where it’s not convenient or possible.
BAT2027💯🤝

The call to make electronic transmission mandatory isn’t born out of ignorance of the Electoral Act, it’s precisely because people understand it.

'Where convenient' is the loophole.

Convenience should not be the referee of democracy. Elections is serious business and every single votes should count

If INEC can transmit results in some places, then the logical demand is to fix the gaps and make it standard everywhere, not to preserve discretion that invites inconsistency, controversy, and mistrust.

I’m genuinely struggling to understand why some supposedly reasonable humans are opposed to the electronic transmission of election results from the polling units in 2026...in this era.

We literally did this in 2023. When INEC’s glitch happened and the matter went to court, the court simply said it wasn’t mandatory under the Electoral Act.

Now people want it made mandatory, and suddenly there’s resistance. So… why exactly?

LegendHero:
We are re-electing President Bola Tinubu in a free and fair election just as we did in 2023

With e-transmission of elections results from polling units

ChiefOloye:
Shortly before 🚗💥 your parents, let me inform you that that figure represents the number of votes APC will have in the 2027 presidential election.

With over ten million sure voters for Tinubu, one would think free, fair, and credible elections wouldn’t be so frightening, especially something as simple as electronic result transmission


Thunder 🔥 ⚡ 🔥 you there

Unfortunately, no regime since independence has killed and maimed more Nigerians than the Tinubu regime.

ChiefOloye:
If you don’t understand the implications of this claim as regards the 2027 general elections, then you don’t have business in the political section of Nairaland, go to jokes or hookups section.

You boast of having 10 million members, yet you’re eternally afraid of free, fair, and credible elections, and still kicking against the electronic transmission of results.

Thunder 🔥⚡🔥⚡🔥 you there

Tinubu Has Done More For The Security Sector Than PDP Did In 16 Years – Presidency Replies ADC’s Abdullahi


The presidency has accused the spokesperson of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Bolaji Abdullahi, of attempting to misrepresent the facts about security in Nigeria.

The Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, maintained that President Tinubu has done more within two years in office than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under which Abdullahi served as a Minister did in the sixteen years it was in power.

The claim was made in response to a statement by Abdullahi on Saturday, who wrote via his 𝕏 account that the rising waves of insecurity in some parts of the cuntry is a confirmation that Nigeria has no government.

“The festering insecurity and violent attacks in Kwara, Katsina and other parts of the country, and massacre of innocent Nigerians is concrete proof that Nigeria has no government,” he wrote.

However, in response, Olusegun accused the former Minister of being dishonest with his submission and attempting to misrepresent the facts with reverse psychology.

The presidential aide listed increased security spending, sustained military intervention, moves for fast-tracking the establishment of state police, and recruitment of more security agents as some of the efforts already deployed by the Tinubu administration since coming into office.

He added that, contrary to what Abdullahi wants the public to believe, the efforts are already yielding results, and while recent attacks in some parts of the country are totally condemnable, the post by Abdullahi is far from the truth.

Olusegun wrote: “While the recent attacks in some parts of the country are totally condemnable, it will be dishonest, though unsurprising coming from you, to compare the efforts of a President who has done more for the security sector in two years than the whole 16 years of your former party, the PDP.

“For record purposes, by building on the efforts of his predecessor, Late President Muhammadu Buhari, who degraded Boko Haram beyond recognition, President Tinubu has continued to take different approaches to solving our insecurity issues in contrast to the dormant, uninspiring and directionless days of your party which led to the tweet quoted by you.

“Below is a compilation of some of the efforts of President Tinubu-led administration on security over the past two and half years.

“Defense spending surged from N1.25 trillion in 2023 to N4.91 trillion in 2025, facilitating disruptions of major terror cells and improved inter-agency coordination.

“Sustained military operations have yielded measurable results, including the surrender of more than 160,000 Boko Haram and ISWAP members and their families.

“Also, President Tinubu has continued to call for the fast tracking of local policing with many states already launching the scheme. ⁠Forest guards, mining marshals and other local security services have been introduced to improve grassroot security.

“⁠To decentralize recruitment and encourage more people to join the military, President Tinubu approved establishment of army depots in Osogbo and Ebonyi which has been described as a welcome development across board.

“⁠A significant overhaul of the national security frame work introducing a new counterterrorism doctrine that classifies all armed non-state actors as terrorists, as outlined in the 2026 budget.

“⁠New institutions like the Livestock Development Ministry aim to resolve farmer-herder clashes, while the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education seeks to prevent vulnerable youth from being recruited into armed groups.

“⁠Equipment procurement has bolstered capabilities, with the addition of five aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force (including two Diamond 62 surveillance planes, two T-129 ATAK helicopters, and one King Air 360 ER), enabling over 8,665 missions and 15,915 flying hours.

“In response, these efforts have led to the neutralization of 9,415 terrorists, arrest of over 3,159 suspects, and rescue of 5,449 hostages between August 2023 and April 2025.

“Also, these initiatives have contributed to reduced influence of groups like IPOB and overall progress in building community trust and addressing underlying social issues.

“Whether you like it or not, Nigerians who lived through both administrations will not be fooled by this attempt at revisionism.

“They see the effort, they know the process and they feel the seriousness; same cannot be said of the administration you are trying to whitewash today.

“We will not watch while you misrepresent the facts with reverse psychology here. No, we will not.”

https://www./2026/02/07/tinubu-has-done-more-for-the-security-sector-than-pdp-did-in-16-years-presidency-replies-adcs-abdullahi/

Bola Ahmed Tinubu should tender his resignation
He has tried his best

HacheNoire:
Everything possible and legitimate should be done so as to avoid court cases when His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) is re-elected.

For those talking about rigging? Why will His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) rig when he does not have opposition? Oh! You classify Peter and Atiku as opposition? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That should be the more reason he should put in place far reaching electoral reforms, support e- transmission of elections results etc so that when he wins, it will be without challenge

After being considered for an ambassadorial appointment, FFK now says he never claimed Tinubu killed Funsho Williams.

So, who killed Funsho Williams?

Lifestone:
He became Jubril from Sudan !

Oh! is that the shege you were referring to

Is it the entire south east or an individual that described him jubril from Sudan