Perhaps, whether owing to a lack of understanding of the letters and the spirit of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, or a lack of understanding of the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, “to make its own rules or otherwise regulate its own procedure shall not be subject to the approval or control of the president,” or a cognitively distant syndrome that appears to be very pervasive now, or deliberate mischief, or a combination of all of the above, the recent brouhaha...
In another video, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, for Akwa Ibom and Ekiti States, Mike Igini and Agbaje, gave hints of an existence of a server, explaining the potency of same to guarantee free, fair and credible elections. In fact, in another video, the INEC Chairman gave details of how and why the platform may not be fully used, citing problems of ICT non-convergence.
However, all the procurements made and the hardware that were used had been done with the hope that the enabling law will be signed in the form of the new Amended 2019 Electoral Act, but when assent for the Act was not obtained, the Commission had to downgrade the full implementation of the electronic transmission back to pilot status.
Section 52 of the Electoral Act, that was signed into law some few days before the 2015 general elections, an amendment which, in more ways than one, paved the way for an APC victory, but which is now being junked by the selfsame APC, specifically, states:”Voting at an election under this Act shall be in accordance with the procedure determined by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Section 153 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, guarantees INEC the latitude to do as it wishes in the area of regulating its activities.
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