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Ahead of the forthcoming 2027 general elections, a Niger Delta human rights activist, Israel Joe, on Monday, in solidarity with the ongoing protest in Abuja, joined his voice in calling on the National Assembly to approve the transmission of electronic results in real time.
Joe made the call during a one-man protest in a video recorded in Warri, Delta State. He opined that the transmission of e-results would save the nation a lot. In his words, “What the umpire should do is to check and tally what was sent by the card reader to the IReV.”
Joe said, “If the National Assembly fails to approve the transfer or transmission of e-results in real time, it therefore means they are now planning how to manipulate and rig the 2027 elections.”
According to him, “From the echoes of the Niger Delta, we are joining our voice to call on the National Assembly to approve those sections that will bring about transparency, fairness, freeness and credibility to our elections in Nigeria.
“That is the call we are making, and we are calling on all stakeholders and the Nigerian people to prevail on the National Assembly to implement this. Anywhere there is a card reader, if you can read somebody’s thumb, you can also have the network to transmit results.”
Joe said the argument by the Senate that there would be no network to electronically transmit election results is counterproductive to a developing nation.
He said, “If we want to grow, we must input into our system those tenets that are capable of making our system good and effective.
“So, we are calling in protest and solidarity for the National Assembly to do the needful for the 2027 elections to be peaceful, credible, fair and free and to be an envy of the entire world.”
2027: Niger Delta activist urges NASS to approve real-time e-results transmission
