Ario

Nigerians PAY ATTENTION! WHAT THE SENATE POSTED IS FAKE NEWS! Akpabio DID NOT approve E-Transmission of results. I repeat, HE DID NOT APPROVE IT. In fact, he has taken us back to manual collation. Does he think he is smarter than all of us? Akpabio must not be allowed to get away with this. What he passed is an insult to the sensible ones among us. Not all of us are sensible. The Senate said & I quote “transmit election results electronically to the IREV portal. BUT, if electronic transmission fails due to network, the manual result sheet would be adopted.” The operative words are “BUT & IF.” They are coordinating & subordinating conjunctions. We know what they do in English Language. One is used to connect contrasting ideas. The other is used to introduce conditions & uncertainties. It simply means that e-transmission is not compulsory. INEC pulling unit officers are now left to decide which method to adopt, & we know they will certainly go with the second option. Then APC will tell us to go to court. What Akpabio did is worse than the previous law. Akpabio has taken us back to 2007. He won’t be doing all these without Bola Tinubu’s instruction. So Nigerians should be ready to protest for 6 months, if that’s what it will take. We must insist on “mandatory transmission.” Akpabio has decided that E-transmission will never happen. So we must organize ourselves in states. Those in Abuja should protest at the National Assembly. Others should protest at State Houses of Assembly. No Retreat No Surrender. Until Akpabio does the right thing. The “but & if” clause inserted by that wayo man must be expunged. The law must say that when “mandatory transmission is not possible, or it failed due to poor network, then voting in that pulling unit must be cancelled & rescheduled. NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER! No Electronic Transmission? No Election! Protests to continue nationwide this time. ✊