E-transmission: Senate’s proposal leaves room for electoral error – Ubani

Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Electoral Reform Committee, Monday Ubani, SAN, says the Senate’s proposal on the Electoral Reform Amendment Bill leaves room for error.

Ubani made this statement on Saturday while fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television.

He said that both electronic transmission and transfer involve manual collation that happens in collation centres, stressing that nothing has changed.

According to him, IREV is just for viewing results, maintaining that it does not calculate or tabulate results.

The lawyer added that the issue most Nigerians have with the Senate’s version is that there’s room for communications failure that can be illegally taken advantage of.

“The…