{"id":83726,"date":"2021-07-15T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83726"},"modified":"2021-07-15T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:13:08","slug":"electoral-act-drama-as-senate-murders-electronic-transmission-of-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/electoral-act-drama-as-senate-murders-electronic-transmission-of-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Act: Drama, As Senate \u2018Murders\u2019 Electronic Transmission Of Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was drama, uproar and protest on the floor of the Senate Thursday as the legislators technically \u201cmurdered\u201d the hopes of Nigerians to have electronic transmission of election results entrenched in the\u00a0 Electoral Act Amendment Bill under consideration at the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The clause by clause consideration of the controversial\u00a0 bill was going smoothly until the train stopped at\u00a0 Section 50(3) which made discretionary\u00a0 provision for INEC to deploy electronic transmission of election results. Initially, the mood in the red chamber appeared that the lawmakers were favourably disposed to electronic transmission of results.<\/p>\n<p>However, a curious amendment from Sen. Sani Abdullahi won the gavel and a ruling was made to make electronic transmission subject to the approval to the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>More details later\u2026<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was drama, uproar and protest on the floor of the Senate Thursday as the legislators technically \u201cmurdered\u201d the hopes of Nigerians to have electronic transmission of election results entrenched&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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