By Ife Osemedua
365Daiiy – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Federal Lawmakers to vote in support of Section 50 (2) of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill which would approve electronic transmission of election results.
It said this will improve Nigeria’s electoral process.
The party made the appeal in a press statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Abuja.
PDP urged the Lawmakers to shun party affiliations for national interest, while alleging that certain interests were plotting a rejection of electronic transfer of results on the floors of both chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday.
Ologbondiyan said: “The PDP asserts that it behooves on every Nigerian, particularly the federal lawmakers, to work on the improvement of our electoral processes in order to engender free, fair, transparent and credible elections.
“The party insists that there is no part of Nigeria or any local government headquarters that communication network does not exist and function, to warrant the exclusion of electronic transmission of election results from the law.
“It is imperative to add that with the technology proposed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), even where the network is slow, it does not stop the transmission process from arriving at the collation Centre.”
He prayed the Lawmakers not to allow themselves to be swayed by any one or any interest bent on manipulating the conducting of election in the country.l
The party also urged Nigerians to stand for a true electorate process that would ensure appropriate delivery of democratic dividends.