TECHNOCRAT MEDIA NIGERIA
ABUJA – The Senate has reconsidered the electoral act amendment bill and has granted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the power to determine the best mode for the transmission of election results.
INEC will now have the power to determine and decide how to transmit election results — either electronically or manually.
The upper legislative chamber also approved that all political parties must use the direct primary mode in picking candidates.
Just a few days after the former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has sent a passionate appeal to members of the National Assembly to save the country the trouble that will result from the proposal to make direct primaries compulsory.
The Senate approved four clauses in the electoral act amendment bill.
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