Nigeria’s House of Representatives has adjourned till Friday by 10am, following a rowdy session that was during the clause-by-clause consideration of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.
Clauses 50-54 which entail the electronic transmission of votes have been the bone of contention in the House following the consideration of the report presided over by the deputy speaker, Ahmed Idris.
While most lawmakers from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) insisted on electronic transmission of results in the general elections, some members of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, opppsed it and advised that both manual and electronic transmission should be allowed.
The argument lasted for hours without a final consideration of the report.
Reverting to plenary, the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila ruled that the House which ought to have gone for its annual long recess on Thursday would continue tomorrow, Friday, where the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) executive vice chairman, Umar Dambata would be in attendance to explain better on whether the electronic transmission of voting results was the way forward or not.
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