Sunday Dare, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will make a sensitive decision on electronic transmission of election results based on Nigeria’s current reality.
The Senate recently approved the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, which authorises the electronic transmission of election results from polling stations to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Result Viewing Portal (IReV), with the caveat that manual transmission may be used in the event of a network or communication failure.
The approval followed days of protests by civil society organisations demanding that the Senate mandate real-time electronic transmission of results from polling units.
Speaking during an interview on ARISE NEWS, Dare assured Nigerians that the president, whom he described as a committed democrat, would act in the best interest of the country.
“I can assure you that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a renowned democrat, will do what is right, but it will not be in isolation from the realities of our country,” he said.
Questioning the feasibility of full real-time transmission, Dare argued that no country operates a completely flawless electronic system.
There’s no 100 per cent real-time transmission anywhere. Are you telling me that this country, as it is, is networked enough to have a 100 per cent electronic process?” he asked.
