By Uche Mbah
The Senate has empowered the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), to follow the provision of the Nigerian Constitution to determine the best way to transmit election results.
INEC has been clamoring on their constitutional rights to determine ways and means of transmitting election results, while the upper legislative chamber showed reluctance in allowing the election umpire use electronic mode to transmission of elections.
Their position has been backed by a faction of Northern elites who argued that both teledensity and internet connectivity is low in certain parts of the North-sn argument that was immediately faulted by INEC.
By this development, the electoral umpire will now determine how to transmit election results — either electronically or manually. They are, however, expected to opt for electronic transmission, since that is what they have been fighting for.
Beside this, the Senate also mandated all political parties to use the direct primary mode to pick candidates vying for different electoral positions.
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