{"id":82559,"date":"2026-02-09T06:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82559"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:27:34","slug":"senate-fixes-emergency-sitting-for-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/09\/senate-fixes-emergency-sitting-for-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Fixes Emergency Sitting for Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate will hold an emergency plenary sitting on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, amid growing public controversy over its recent decision on the Electoral Act amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The sitting, scheduled for 12 noon, was announced on Sunday in a statement signed by the Clerk of the Senate, Emmanuel Odo, directing all senators to attend.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Senate President Godswill Akpabio approved the reconvening to address urgent national matters.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency session comes days after the Senate passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill on February 4 but rejected Clause 60(3), which sought to make the electronic transmission of results from polling units to INEC\u2019s Result Viewing portal mandatory and in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, lawmakers retained the existing provision that allows electronic transmission at the discretion of presiding officers after votes are counted and announced at polling units.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has drawn criticism from civil society organisations and opposition figures, who described it as a setback for electoral transparency.<\/p>\n<p>However, Akpabio has defended the Senate\u2019s position, insisting that lawmakers did not reject electronic transmission of results and would not be intimidated.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s sitting is expected to address the backlash, with speculation that the Senate may revisit the rejected clause under public pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Senate will hold an emergency plenary sitting on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, amid growing public controversy over its recent decision on the Electoral Act amendment. The sitting, scheduled for 12 noon, was announced on Sunday in a statement signed by the Clerk of the Senate, Emmanuel Odo, directing all senators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82559","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=82559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82561,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82559\/revisions\/82561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}