The House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted the Senate version of the Electoral Act Amendment which allowed both electronic and manual transmission of results.
The Green Chamber failed to rescind its earlier decision on Clause 60 (3) adopting the despite protest by some of its members who staged a walk out during plenary.
The adoption came despite protest from opposition lawmakers who walked from chambers, chanting “APC, ole”! APC, ole!
Earlier, the House approved Clause 60(3) which stipulates that “The Presiding Officer shall electronically transmit the results from each polling unit to IREV portal and such transmission shall be done after the prescribed Form EC8A has been signed and stamped by the Presiding officer and/or countersigned by the candidates or Polling agents where available at the Polling Unit.”
But the House approved the version passed by the Senate at the emergency sitting which gave a condition on transmission of election results.
The adopted version stipulates: “The Presiding Officer shall electronically transmit the
results from each polling unit to IREV portal and such transmission shall be done after the prescribed Form EC8A has been signed and stamped by the Presiding officer and/or
countersigned by the candidates or Polling agents where available at the Polling Unit.
“Provided that if the electronic transmission of the result fails as a result of communication failure and it becomes impossible to transmit the result contained in form EC8A signed and stamped by the Presiding Officer and countersigned by the candidates or polling agents where available at the polling unit, the form EC8A shall remain the primary source of collation and declaration of the result.”
