The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said given the data analysis from the Nigeria Communication, NCC, that less than 50% of the country’s domain is effectively covered, granting the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, “unfettered electronic transmission power would have created an opportunity for unequal treatment of votes across the country.
Omo-Agege in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Legislative and Plenary Matters, Prince Efe Duku, said it would have been a major blunder in the lawmaking process which could have been easily upturned in a court of law when challenged.
“For him, the message from this data is that if INEC is allowed unfettered E-Transmission power, then there will be unequal treatment of election results and that would be a fundamental lawmaking flaw”.
Omo-Agege said contrary to what his detractors want the people to believe, he did not vote against electronic transmission of election results but was on the side of a few courageous senators who voted for an amendment that guarantees secure E-transmission of election results and uniformity in the proposed law.
He called on the people to ignore what he described as the antics of defeated anti-democratic elements and their mischievous commentary or speculation that he voted against E-Transmission of results and electronic voting.