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Nigerian Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan has said the newly passed electoral act amendment bill has come to settle the issue of what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can do and what it cannot do.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Senator Lawan made this known in a statement on Thursday following the passage of the electoral act amendment bill by the upper legislative chamber.
In the statement, Lawan stated that the Senate has given the INEC an electoral Act amended to enhance its performance, adding that there was no victor, no vanquished in the passage of the bill.
The statement reads: “Today, the Nigerian Senate passed the electoral act amendment bill after going through a serious and probably torturous process.
“With the passage of the bill, we have achieved what we have set for ourselves because of our commitment.
“At the beginning of the Ninth Senate, we resolved to have a legislative agenda, and in our legislative agenda, the Petroleum Industry Bill and amendment of the Electoral Act 2010, are pillars of what we have set for ourselves to do. Today, we have achieved those two issues.
“In the passage of this Electoral Act amendment bill, there was no victor, no vanquished in the affair. Everyone did what he or she did for the full commitment and realization that what we want is one and the same thing, but the path we have taken are different.
“We want an electronic transmission system for our electoral process, however, we want to ensure that no Nigerian is disenfranchised in this process, and time will definitely come when all part of Nigeria will have the coverage that we all need to deploy our technology to ensure electronic transmission of election results.
“This has come to settle the issue of what INEC can do and what INEC cannot. We have given INEC an electoral Act amended to enhance its performance”.