Harboursandport.com: Port Harcourt - The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has hailed as welcomed development the decision of the National Assembly to allow the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to determine the use of electronic voting and transfer of results in the 2023 polls.
Wike said the resolution of the National Assembly joint committee to allow the electoral umpire to transmit election results electronically is a good development for Nigeria and democracy.
The Governor stated this in Port Harcourt on Tuesday in reaction to the decision of the Senate to rescind its earlier stance against transmission of results electronically, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Media Kelvin Ebiri.
He said: "I think it is good news to hear that the Joint Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate agreed for INEC to transmit results electronically. That is good news to hear. Like I have always said, what is important now is what people want. The moments you do what the people want you'll see happiness everywhere."
"I think it is a good development for Nigeria and democracy. And I will urge them, the two Chambers, the House of Representatives, and the Senate to abide by that recommendation by the joint committee of the two Chambers because it is for their own interest.
"And I commend the Senate President and the Speaker, House of Representatives, all the principal officers and members who felt that they must listen to what is good for Nigeria and what is good for Nigerians."
Wike while speaking on the amendment of the Electoral Act stated that the issue of direct or indirect primaries should be the exclusive decision of the political parties in the country.
He, however, maintained that it will be unfair for the National Assembly to prescribe for political parties how to conduct their primaries.
"A party could adopt a method, procedure in electing who represent them at various levels that is not for the National Assembly to dictate that you must do it by direct or indirect method. That is not democracy. That should be an internal affair of the party."
"The National Assembly should realise that doing that is interfering in the internal politics of the parties and that will not augur well."
He further faulted the bill sponsored by the Deputy Senate President seeking for the establishment of two Nigerian Law School campuses in each of the six geopolitical zones.
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