The Chairman Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator Sharafadeen Alli has said the 10th Senate would review the Electoral Act to make upload of election results mandatory for the electoral umpire.
The Senator representing Oyo South dropped the hint on Tuesday while speaking on Channels TV.
He said: “That is one of the things that we are going to do. Under the current law, it is not mandatory for INEC to upload results, that is what the court has said. But as we are going forward, it is going to be mandatory.”
Aside from the upgrade of election technology, he further revealed that the Parliament would consider a proposal to resolve all pre-election matters before the election.
“We looked at elections and election petitions. In terms of legislation about election petitions, what we think is all pre-election matters resolved before the election.
“We are also looking at a situation where election petitions are concluded before swearing-in.
“We are thinking of approving the time within which to file and conclude election petitions so that somebody will not be sworn in, that is what led us into having these off-cycle elections. There would have been no need for it if we were able to conclude election petitions before the swearing-in.
“We are looking at the development of technology, improvement of technology because a lot of Nigerians were disappointed when the use of the IReV didn’t work, but going forward we will try to ensure INEC does something about that.”
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