Electoral Act: This Is Just a Warning — Isaac Fayose Speaks During Protest at NASS
Businessman Isaac Fayose has described Monday’s protest at the National Assembly complex as only the beginning of a larger movement.
Politics Nigeria reports that a cross-section of Nigerians converged on the National Assembly on Monday morning to demand that electronic transmission of election results be made compulsory.
Despite several clarifications by the Senate following reports that it rejected electronic transmission of results, the protesters insist that lawmakers must be clear by explicitly inserting the phrase “real-time electronic transmission” in the proposed legislation.
Senate announced earlier that it would hold an emergency plenary session on Tuesday to address the concerns raised.
Speaking to journalists at the protest ground, Fayose said the decision reached at the emergency sitting would determine whether the protest would continue.
He said, “We all know what happens in a collation room. A collation room is a room where you soak garri with water in the night and before you return in the morning, it has swollen up and turned to eba.
“For Nigerians to be happy, what we need is electronic transmission of results. They are already denying it. Let’s wait till tomorrow. This one is just a warning.
“Something that we spent close to a trillion to achieve, you want to throw it away just like that? It’s like carrying our money and throwing it inside the gutter. No, it can’t happen like that.”
