At the moment, the Electoral Act provides for collation and announcement of results at the unit, ward, local government, state and federal levels, depending on the particular election in question. For example, while the collation in the presidential election will go the whole hog, collation at an election to elect a governor will terminate at the state level.
This verification which can be done along with the agents of the other parties will then be repeated for the remaining levels of collation. Whilst some aspects of the proposed amendments to the Electoral Act 2018, which unfortunately failed to receive the assent of the President already provide for the deployment of technology in the conduct of the election, they are not far reaching enough to provide for real-time transmission of election results as suggested here.
“However, conflicting judgements, especially by courts of coordinate jurisdiction at the High Court level, are putting the Commission in a very difficult position and creating uncertainty in the process. The court in one judicial division may order the Commission on a particular course of action only to be contradicted by another court of coordinate jurisdiction from another division or even within the same division on the same subject matter.
To be clear, pre-election matters and the problem they pose to the smooth and efficient conduct of elections as identified by the Chairman of INEC, are not entirely new. Indeed, it is to allow for the timely disposal of such matters that the Determination of Pre-Election Matters Act 2017 was passed.
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