{"id":193601,"date":"2026-02-05T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:14:12","slug":"senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo","title":{"rendered":"Senate Betrays Nigerians Says YIAGA Africa Boss Itodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, says the Senate has betrayed the trust of Nigerians and made rubbish of all the gains they have made.<\/p>\n<p>Itodo said this on Wednesday when he appeared as a guest in an interview on Arise Television monitored .<\/p>\n<p>Itodo was reacting to the Senate rejecting real-time electronic transmission of election results, warning that it is a dangerous retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Senate on Wednesday turned down a proposed change to Clause 60, Subsection 3, of the Electoral Amendment Bill that aimed to compel the electronic transmission of election results.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, barley three hours after the announcement, Senate President Godswill Akpabio clarified that the Senate did not reject the electronic transmission of election results during consideration of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Itodo said, \u201cThe Senate has betrayed the trust of Nigerians and made rubbish of all the gains we have made. This is a dangerous retreat from some of the lofty reforms that were introduced by the 2022 Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI completely disagree with the Senate president. He\u2019s just being clever by half, because what he is saying is that the ruling of the Supreme Court in the 2023 elections, they were very clear that electronic coalition or transmission was unknown to the law that INEC cannot, by virtue of its guidelines, introduce electronic transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so what the National Assembly did, particularly the two committees in the National Assembly was to take that judicial pronouncement and update the law, because when the extant law says it shall be by a procedure determined by INEC, INEC went ahead in its guideline, determined the procedure, but the court now said, no, you have to insert it in the law and the report before them, because I was part of the technical committee that was part of this entire process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the House passed was that electronic transmission will be part of this process. In fact, the report also mentioned the iREV. So I think that the senate president is lying to Nigerians, because that\u2019s not what was provided in the report. It was clear electronic transmission of result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s not also the only thing. One of the things that the Senate has also done is introduce some draconian provisions that will undermine the preparations for the 2027 elections, especially logistics. What they have done, they\u2019ve compressed the time frame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this is the outcome of a thorough job, then I think that the Senate owes Nigerians a lot of apologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, says the Senate has betrayed the trust of Nigerians and made rubbish of all the gains they have made. Itodo said this on Wednesday when he appeared as a guest in an interview on Arise Television monitored . Itodo was reacting to the Senate rejecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":193600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-193601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senate Betrays Nigerians Says YIAGA Africa Boss Itodo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, says the Senate has betrayed the trust of Nigerians and made rubbish o ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate Betrays Nigerians Says YIAGA Africa Boss Itodo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, says the Senate has betrayed the trust of Nigerians and made rubbish o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-05T09:10:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-05T10:14:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770286426.00889.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Senate Betrays Nigerians Says YIAGA Africa Boss Itodo\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-05T09:10:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-05T10:14:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo\"},\"wordCount\":436,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770286426.00889.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-betrays-nigerians-says-yiaga-africa-boss-itodo\",\"name\":\"Senate Betrays Nigerians Says YIAGA Africa Boss Itodo - 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