President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Signs Amendments Of 2022 Electoral Act Bill Into Law Despite Agitations

After the nationwide agitations by the populace for inclusion of real time electronic transmission of election results from the polling boots to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (I-Rev) without success, President Bola Tinubu has signed into law the Amended copy of the 2022 Electoral Act Bill which provided instead a dual mode of transmission of results.

The National Assembly declined to yield to the demands of the populace and resorted to pass dual mode provision, implying that where electronic transmission fails, election results will be manually transmitted from collation centers.

While signing the Bill on Wednesday evening at the presidential villa, Abuja, President Tinubu said: “When citizens walk into a polling unit, they must do so with confidence. When results are declared, they must be trusted. That confidence is built deliberately, and not by chance.

“I sincerely thank the National Assembly for its cooperation and sense of national responsibility in bringing this process to a successful conclusion. Our responsibility remains to keep improving the system so that the people’s will is expressed clearly, peacefully, and credibly.

“The work of strengthening our democracy continues, and we shall not relent.
“Electoral Act amendments are not about politics, they are about process.

” After every election cycle, we owe Nigerians an honest look at what worked and what must work better. That is how serious democracies behave, and our laws must grow with experience.

“Today, I signed the final amendments to the 2022 Electoral Act into law.

“These amendments are not about politics. They are about process. They are about closing gaps, strengthening procedures, and providing greater clarity to those who conduct and participate in our elections.

“When citizens walk into a polling unit, they must do so with confidence. When results are declared, they must be trusted. That confidence is built deliberately, and not by chance.

“I sincerely thank the National Assembly for its cooperation and sense of national responsibility in bringing this process to a successful conclusion. Our responsibility remains to keep improving the system so that the people’s will is expressed clearly, peacefully, and credibly.

“The work of strengthening our democracy continues, and we shall not relent.”