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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.
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Transforming the electoral system apparently remains a Sisyphean task with some federal lawmakers âsmugglingâ a clause into the Electoral Act Amendment Bill specifically barring electronic transmission of election results by INEC. Achi Louis writes
Gaming the electoral management system continues. Since the end of the Cold War, democratic elections have become almost a universal trend. Yet, in many countries, where elections are held, freedom and democracy are actually in retreat. Intended as mechanisms for the peaceful arbitration of political rivalries, they rather often become flashpoints for political violence.
At the core of these paradoxes are elections without integrity. All too often, elections serve merely to give autocratic regimes a coating of legitimacy. But fundamentally, elections without integrity cannot provide the winners with legitimacy, the losers with security and the public with confidence in their leaders and institutions.
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Published 16 May 2021
The House of Representatives has yet to consider a report on the amendments to the Electoral Act, almost three months after it was laid before it
The House Committee on Electoral Matters had on February 23, 2021, presented the report on the Electoral Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill.
The Chairman of the committee, Aishatu Dukku, had prayed the House to “receive the report of the Committee on Electoral Matters on a Bill for an Act to Repeal the Electoral Act, 2010 and Enact the Electoral Act, 2021 to Regulate the Conduct of Elections in Federal, States and Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory; and for Related Matters.”