Senate Rejects Mandatory Electronic Transmission of Election Results

[NigerianEye - Nigeria] - 5/02/2026

The Nigerian Senate has voted against making electronic transmission of election results compulsory, choosing to maintain the existing provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act.During Wednesday’s plenary session, the upper chamber considered a bill seeking to repeal the Electoral Act No. 13, 2022, and enact a new Electoral Act, 2025. A major proposed amendment new Clause 60(5) which would have required presiding officers to transmit polling unit results in real time to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal after completing Form EC8A was rejected.Instead, the Senate retained the current (…)

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