The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the decisions of the All Progressives Congress, APC, senators to vote against electronic transmission of results as a defilement of the 1999 Constitution.
On Thursday, 52 APC senators voted no to electronic transmission of election results.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party said that the “action of the APC senators is a direct affront, novel in its recklessness and a defilement of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which clearly conferred operational independence to INEC to conduct elections, free from interferences and regulations from any other agency of government.”
The PDP also described the action of the senators as an atrocious assault on the sensibilities of Nigerians, who looked up to the Nigerian Senate for improvement in the electoral process.
Describing the decision as a desperate bid to annex INEC, the PDP said that the decision could derial democracy and destabilise the nation.
“The decision of the APC Senators therefore amounts to a suspension of the 1999 constitution (as amended) which is a recipe for crisis that could derail our democracy and destabilize our nation. It is, to say the least, a preparation for mass rigging of elections across Nigeria by the APC, which must be firmly resisted.”
