{"id":195406,"date":"2026-02-19T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/electoral-act-haunts-us-with-past-issues-ex-inec-director"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:47:36","slug":"electoral-act-haunts-us-with-past-issues-ex-inec-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electoral-act-haunts-us-with-past-issues-ex-inec-director","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Act Haunts Us with Past Issues Ex-INEC Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Amid the passage and subsequent signing into law of the Electoral Act, former Director of Voter Education, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, says Nigerians will be haunted by ghosts of the past.<\/p>\n

Osaze-Uzzi made this statement on Thursday on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Morning Show\u2019.<\/p>\n

His remark is coming barely 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu signed into law the controversial Electoral Amendment Act passed by the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reports that before the passage and signing of the Electoral Act, many civil society organizations, CSOs, and opposition politicians like the former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, kicked against the provision for manual collation.<\/p>\n

They staged protests for days at the gate of the National Assembly in Abuja insisting on real-time electronic transmission of election results.<\/p>\n

However, President Tinubu on Wednesday signed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026 into law barely 24 hours after it was passed by the National Assembly<\/p>\n

Airing his views on the matter, Osaze-Uzzi said, \u201cWe\u2019ve opened ourselves to the ghost of the past with proviso.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout sounding like a prophet of doom, we\u2019ll be haunted by the ghosts of the past with the passage of the Electoral Act, as there hasn\u2019t been any significant change.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we say transmission fails and allow the primary evidence of voting and candidate scores to be the manual form EC-8A, this will become the norm.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresiding officers may be compelled to claim there\u2019s no network and ask collation officers to use the manual form.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Amid the passage and subsequent signing into law of the Electoral Act, former Director of Voter Education, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, says Nigerians will be haunted by ghosts of the past. Osaze-Uzzi made this statement on Thursday on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Morning Show\u2019. 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