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Former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shagari, has said that Nigeria should not be in hurry to begin real-time transmission of election results.

Shagari gave this advice on Friday in an interview on Arise Television.

His comment is coming amid the controversy surrounding the position of the Senate on electronic transmission of election results.

DAILY POST reports that the Senate on Wednesday reportedly turned down a proposed change to Clause 60, sub-section 3 of the Electoral Amendment Bill that sought to make electronic transmission of election results compulsory.

Reacting, the ex-Deputy Governor said, “E-transmission of election results is good. But this is done in countries that have the necessary things available to transmit. In Nigeria we must admit that we have a lot of challenges.

We must acknowledge that we have challenges in electricity. We have challenges even in transmission of television, I mean services and all this kind of thing and so on so forth. So I believe that we should not be in a hurry to start transmitting election results real-time.

“We should try to make sure that we perfect our elections because we still have problems as far as our elections are concerned. We are learning. Don’t forget that even America that has over 200 years of democracy is still having problems in transmitting election results. It has happened during the the administration of President George Bush.

So America, with all its experience in elections, technology and so on, could not have a perfect election when it comes to issues of transmission of results, let alone Nigeria.”

SlavaUkraini:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/02/06/nigeria-not-ready-for-real-time-transmission-of-election-results-shagari/

Atheistan:
There you go sir.

Polling place electronic voting or Internet voting examples have taken place in Australia,[1] Belgium,[2][3] Brazil,[4] Estonia,[5][6] France, Germany, India,[7] Italy, Namibia, the Netherlands (Rijnland Internet Election System), Norway, Peru, Switzerland, the UK,[8] Venezuela,[9] Pakistan and the Philippines.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country

Nextjs:
But we are ready to tax the hell out of Nigerians

We are ready to implement 20% tax on income.
Ready for VAT of 7% on all consumables.
Ready to categorised Nigerians into band A to C and increase the price of electricity.

We are ready to demolished makoko without any plan for resettlement of the displaced.

TimiofAbuja:
Nigerians are not actually ready true..... WizKid said he's greater than Fela....more than 2 weeks internet was buzzing, senate rejected real time transmission of election results....... everywhere was quiet as if nothing was said.....we are not ready

Image123:
Can you explain the readiness? Is there internet in every village, or their votes should not count because there's some mandatory internet need?

Exousiang01:
Young man, Nigeria is not ready for what they are demanding for.
Most of you don't even know you are demanding for.

When you say Real-time it means it can not be uploaded hours after, when you say compulsory it means any results the isn't uploaded realtime becomes invalid.

Now that invalidates results coming from rural areas with access to network.

And the world compulsory makes any votes collated manually invalid.

Lack of basic education has actually destroyed the young people in this country.

They are many villages around the country without network access.
Don't villages will not be able to upload the results real-time and even if they take the papers to the centres or INEC office, the results will not be accepted because they are not real-time.....

You young people should think, exercise your brains

Exousiang01:
The one major problem we have in Nigeria is ignorance.

The opposition leaders are not ignorant, they know what they are asking for cannot work, but they also know the kind of followers they have, they those set of things don't think,they know whatever they say will be taken hook-line-sinker.

Ask them how many of the 1st world countries with centuries of advanced tech than Nigeria are doing real-time and they won't be able to mention.....

tivity101:
To think that this person saying Nigeria is not ready for electronic transmission of election results was a one time deputy governor of sokoto state really bsffles me.

atobs4real:
If the even do the E transmission, na una go still hack am

Exousiang01:
Young man, Nigeria is not ready for what they are demanding for.
Most of you don't even know you are demanding for