Electoral Act: Abati, Rufai disagree on live television

Leading Arise News anchors, Reuben Abati and Rufai Oseni, connected Thursday disagreed implicit the Electoral Amendment Act connected unrecorded television.

DAILY POST reports that the 2 chambers of the National Assembly precocious passed the Electoral Amendment Act, which approved the physics transmission of predetermination results, with manual collation retained arsenic a backup.

President Bola Tinubu signed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026 into instrumentality hardly 24 hours aft it was passed by the National Assembly.

The transition and signing of the Electoral Act sparked controversy.

Speaking connected unrecorded tv connected Thursday, Rufai said, “They passed the instrumentality to marque it mandatory for physics transmission. Once you person 2 arms that are expected to beryllium separated and the Senate president is said to beryllium loyal to the President, past it’s a occupation for Nigeria due to the fact that we can’t get effectual representation.

“And with owed respect, the Senate doesn’t correspond us. They’re determination to correspond the involvement of the President, that’s wherefore they are doing everything successful the involvement of the president. Let’s telephone a spade a spade.

“This is simply a ideology for Christ’s sake. It’s not an authoritarian ...