Again, Senate tackles INEC over 2023 election results transmission

The Senate yesterday insisted that the National Assembly had the power to make laws on mode of elections, including transmission of results.

The Spokesperson for the red chamber, Senator AJIBOLA BASIRU, stated this in an interview with journalists while reacting to a declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the 1999 constitution gave it the power to determine and adopt any mode of elections. But senior lawyers, including MIKE OZEKHOME and TAYO OYETIBO, in separate interviews supported INEC.

The fresh controversy over the power of the National Assembly came to the fore yesterday, as the joint conference committee of the two chambers of federal legislature meets this week, to harmonise the versions of the electoral bill passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.