{"id":194899,"date":"2026-02-14T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/e-transmission-proposal-allows-electoral-errors"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:01:59","slug":"e-transmission-proposal-allows-electoral-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-proposal-allows-electoral-errors","title":{"rendered":"E-Transmission Proposal Allows Electoral Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Electoral Reform Committee, Monday Ubani, SAN, says the Senate\u2019s proposal on the Electoral Reform Amendment Bill leaves room for error.<\/p>\n<p>Ubani made this statement on Saturday while fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>He said that both electronic transmission and transfer involve manual collation that happens in collation centres, stressing that nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, IREV is just for viewing results, maintaining that it does not calculate or tabulate results.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer added that the issue most Nigerians have with the Senate\u2019s version is that there\u2019s room for communications failure that can be illegally taken advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate proposed bill leaves room for electoral error. If there are differences, there will be a harmonization committee to look at those differences and come up with a harmonized version for transmission to the President for assent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m very happy that the House of Representatives did theirs last year and then the Senate have actually also passed their own version and there are differences and then the committee will sit on Monday in order to harmonize that position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position of the law, which is 2022 Act, was that it gave INEC the responsibility of issuing out a guideline or prescribing a guideline as to the mode of transfer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with our electoral system has always been between the polling unit and the collation centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people have witnessed a situation where a different result will be declared at the collation centre, different from what happened at the polling unit,\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. Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Electoral Reform Committee, Monday Ubani, SAN, says the Senate\u2019s proposal on the Electoral Reform Amendment Bill leaves room for error. Ubani made this statement on Saturday while fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television. 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