All things being equal, majority of Nigerians who desire to witness a more transparent electoral process, especially through the transfer of election results electronically to the data base of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will see their dreams come true.
This is because INEC has assured Nigerians and the international community that it will not go back on the electronic transmission of results from polling units in future elections.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Ogun State, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, stated this during a news conference at the state INEC headquarters in Abeokuta Thursday.
According to Agbaje, who just resumed in the state as the REC, the INEC already had enough law that capacitated it to transmit election results electronically.
Agbaje said: “We have enough law that capacitated us to go ahead but if the National Assembly says we cannot do it with the new committee that had been set up, we will stop and that will be a new law.
“If they are going to make a new law that will incapacitate us that will be too bad.
“With the shout of Nigerians, non-governmental bodies, the media and many other stakeholders, I believe the National Assembly will do the right thing so that INEC can go ahead.
“Even before the transmission, all the party agents would have the manual copies of the results.
“We at INEC are very much ready and we have the capacity to do it to the admiration of all Nigerians."
According to Agbaje, who just resumed in the state as the REC, the INEC already had enough law that capacitated it to transmit election results electronically.
Agbaje said: “We have enough law that capacitated us to go ahead but if the National Assembly says we cannot do it with the new committee that had been set up, we will stop and that will be a new law.
“If they are going to make a new law that will incapacitate us that will be too bad.
“With the shout of Nigerians, non-governmental bodies, the media and many other stakeholders, I believe the National Assembly will do the right thing so that INEC can go ahead.
“If the National Assembly see that there is any way that NCC can help, they should tell the NCC. They have enough time to do that. They have more than one and a half years to do neccessary things before the general election.“We have an understanding that if results cannot be transmitted at a particular polling unit or location, due to network problems, they can move from the unit level to ward level where there is network and do it.
“Even before the transmission, all the party agents would have the manual copies of the results.
“We at INEC are very much ready and we have the capacity to do it to the admiration of all Nigerians."
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