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A recent attempt to sanitise the country’s electoral process suffered a setback last week over reported plan by some elements in the National Assemby to remove electronic transmission of results from the Electoral Act amendment Bill due for consideration by the National Assembly this week. Adedayo Akinwale reports
It came as a rude shock, when news filtered in that electronic transmission of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been expunged from the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 billed for consideration by the two chambers of the National Assembly this week. The Section was believed to have been “smuggled” into the Bill as it was never part of the provisions agreed to by the stakeholders and the Senate Committee on INEC during their various engagements.
In spite of the many challenges facing the country, lawmakers elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives, last week, resorted to petty politics, Adedayo Akinwale writes
Since the security challenge facing the country took a turn for the worse, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government has taken every step to divert the attention of Nigerians by absorbing President Muhammadu Buhari of every blame due to him in spite of the fact that his unenviable leadership style has brought the country to the lowest ebb.
This, it has done by hiring the services of civil society organisations and pro-APC groups, who have maintained constant presence in the media by organising various press conferences, spinning all sorts of conspiracy theories and accusing the opposition parties and their governors of being behind the security menace that is crippling the country.