{"id":82503,"date":"2026-02-07T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82503"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:50:14","slug":"82503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/07\/82503\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Act: Senators Insist Senate Retained Electronic Transmission of Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Opposition senators, including Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Aminu Tambuwal, have insisted that the Senate passed Clause 60(3) of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, which provides for real-time electronic transmission of election results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The clarification was made on Thursday in Abuja by 13 senators led by Abaribe, following reports that the Senate rejected the clause during plenary on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Abaribe said the Senate President had also confirmed that what was adopted was electronic transmission of results. He explained that a joint committee of the electoral committees of both chambers worked on the bill and unanimously agreed that real-time transmission was necessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He added that the Senate considered the report of its ad hoc committee during a closed session before returning to plenary, where the clause was passed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Abaribe said a harmonisation committee had been set up to reconcile the versions passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives, noting that the process would produce a single document for presidential assent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He also clarified that after Wednesday\u2019s adjournment, the Senate did not reconvene to approve the votes and proceedings, adding that one more procedural step remained before final adoption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Abaribe urged Nigerians to engage their representatives, stressing that real-time electronic transmission of results is a national, not partisan, issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Opposition senators, including Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Aminu Tambuwal, have insisted that the Senate passed Clause 60(3) of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, which provides for real-time electronic transmission of election results. The clarification was made on Thursday in Abuja by 13 senators led by Abaribe, following reports that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82507,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82503\/revisions\/82507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}