{"id":194140,"date":"2026-02-09T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:37:49","slug":"electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu","title":{"rendered":"Electronic transmission of results not enough \u2013 Nwagwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Executive Director of Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa, Ezenwa Nwagwu, has harped on the importance of electronic transmission of election results.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Morning Show\u2019 on Monday, Nwagwu, however, said electronic transmission of results is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, electoral reforms must include electronic transfer and collation of results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy quick sense is that the current agitation we have seen around the Electoral Act is positive. Positive in the sense that we have more and more citizens asking questions concerning governance and the activities of those who govern us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the more you have people and more citizens engaging the issue of lawmaking, the more it is that we are expanding the democratic space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving said that, it is also important to say that the electronic transmission of results is important, but it is not far reaching. The Act should include electronic transmission and collation of results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IREV may not be equipped to convert electoral results sent in real-time as images to numbers, so we must also digitise the collation process to block any form of malpractice,\u201d he said.<\/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 Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa, Ezenwa Nwagwu, has harped on the importance of electronic transmission of election results. Speaking on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Morning Show\u2019 on Monday, Nwagwu, however, said electronic transmission of results is not enough. According to him, electoral reforms must include electronic transfer and collation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":194139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-194140","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>Electronic transmission of results not enough \u2013 Nwagwu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Executive Director of Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa, Ezenwa Nwagwu, has harped on the importance of ...\" \/>\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\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electronic transmission of results not enough \u2013 Nwagwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Executive Director of Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa, Ezenwa Nwagwu, has harped on the importance of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-09T11:34:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-09T12:37:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770640652.125371.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Electronic transmission of results not enough \u2013 Nwagwu\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-09T11:34:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-09T12:37:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu\"},\"wordCount\":205,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770640652.125371.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electronic-transmission-of-results-not-enough-nwagwu\",\"name\":\"Electronic transmission of results not enough \u2013 Nwagwu - 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