{"id":82611,"date":"2026-02-10T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82611"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:47:28","slug":"el-rufai-backs-protest-over-senates-rejection-of-real-time-result-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/10\/el-rufai-backs-protest-over-senates-rejection-of-real-time-result-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Backs Protest Over Senate\u2019s Rejection of Real-Time Result Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has voiced support for protests against the Senate\u2019s rejection of real-time electronic transmission of election results, saying most manipulation occurs at collation centres.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Trust Television, el-Rufai said he would have joined Monday\u2019s protest led by 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, if he had been in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is where the real rigging takes place,\u201d he said, referring to collation centres.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that direct transmission of results from polling units is the only effective way to prevent election-day manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai also accused the ruling party and the Federal Government of opposing real-time transmission for political reasons, suggesting their resistance is aimed at preserving post-election result alteration.<\/p>\n<p>On the 2027 elections, he revealed that the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has begun mobilising supporters, drafting its manifesto, and establishing internal democratic structures to ensure fairness in candidate selection, with no forced consensus or zoning restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has voiced support for protests against the Senate\u2019s rejection of real-time electronic transmission of election results, saying most manipulation occurs at collation centres. Speaking to Trust Television, el-Rufai said he would have joined Monday\u2019s protest led by 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82611","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=82611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82613,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82611\/revisions\/82613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}