The rejection of the real-time electronic transmission of election results by the National Assembly dominated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Electoral Amendment Bill 2026 is an indication that the same party that demanded e-voting in the 2015 elections is afraid of the possible outcome of 2027 general election.
Since the rejection, posts have been resurfacing online on how the then opposition party in 2013, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) led by the incumbent President Bola Tinubu, demanded that Nigeria should embrace electronic voting in order to ensure the integrity of its elections. Recall that The ACN later metamorphosed into the APC.
In one of the statements issued by the then National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN declared that with electronic voting, the overall cost of elections will be less and there will be stability in the polity.
