The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire, says the theoretical transmission of electoral results is possible.
YaahooJournalist reports that INEC made this known while speaking on the conditions under which election results in Nigeria can be transmitted electronically.
Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC’s Director of Publicity, disclosed this but was quick to note that the current laws guiding elections in the country do not permit the electronic transmission of results.
INEC’s Director of Publicity made the submissions when he appeared on Channel’s Television programme, Politics Today, adding that the electronic transmission of results does not make such result immune to manipulation.
According to him,
“Theoretically, in our elections, you can transmit the results electronically. But the law in Nigeria does not allow for that.
“If Nigerians want that to happen, then you can do that. But that does not mean it will not be susceptible to manipulation by people who are interested in manipulating the process.
“That is the building for the very foundation. If that is not right, others are not right. Even if INEC gets the collation wrong which it should not, there is a process by which, for example, it is challenged, it goes back to the commission.”
