By George Mgbeleke <\/p>\n
Ahead of 2027 Polls, the Senate has commenced the process of passing the Electronic transmission of results from polling units to INEC Result Viewing Portal ( IREV) after counting of votes.<\/p>\n
This action is one of the major recommendations made for the proposed Electoral Act for the 2027 general elections .<\/p>\n
The recommendation and others shall be considered by the Senate in plenary on Thursday when the report of its committee on Electoral Matters is presented and debated clause by clause .<\/p>\n
Decisions to these effect , were taken by the Senate during plenary on Wednesday when its Leader , Senator Opeyemi Bamidele ( Ekiti North ) , informed Senators that the report billed for consideration , should be circulated to all the Senators for scrutiny ahead of clause by clause consideration on Thursday .<\/p>\n
Bamidele, as approved by the President of the Senate , Godswill Akpabio , also informed the Senators that a brief closed door session would be held on the report before general consideration at the committee of the whole .<\/p>\n
A copy of the report obtained by Blueprint, shows that on page 45, a new subsection (3) was intoduced into the 2022 Electoral Act ( Amendment) Bill 2025 , to check manipulation of results and ballot box snatching .<\/p>\n
The section pointedly states that ” INEC shall electronically transmit election results from each polling unit to IREV portal in real time and such transmission shall be done simultaneously with physical collation of results.”<\/p>\n
In the report , a new subsection 2 was also introduced to section 77 to make the offence of failure of Presiding Officers to sign and stamp ballot papers and results announced by them , punishable .<\/p>\n
Section 47(2) and (3) were also amnended by substituting the words ” smart card reader ” with the words ” Bimodal Voter Accreditation System” <\/p>\n
Also , the Senate committee on Electoral Matters in the report , amended section 54(1) to check abuse of electoral process by those who take advantage of visually impaired and incapacitated voters by barring any political party agent , candidate or official from accompanying such voters into voting compartment <\/p>\n
Recommendation was also made for more stringent measures against buying and selling voters’ cards by any agent of political parties by increasing N500, 000.00 in section 22 to N5, 000.000.00million .<\/p>\n
Being a very sensitive legislation , the President of the Senate , Godswill Akpabio, in his remarks , appealed to all Senators to study copies of the report given to them ahead of final consideration on Thursday during plenary .<\/p>\n
” Distinguished colleagues , as suggested by the leader , please let’s look into the report very well ahead of final consideration tomorrow first from closed door session and at committee of the whole,” he said .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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