Heavy security has been deployed to maintain order around the National Assembly on Monday, including the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, as Nigerians are currently converging in Abuja to protest the Senate’s rejection of e-transmission of election results.
The protest, tagged ‘Occupy National Assembly’, had a prominent figure of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Peter Obi.
Speaking at the protest ground, Obi faulted the Senate’s position on the electronic transmission of election results, urging lawmakers to allow the electoral process to proceed without restrictions.
Obi said, “Allow the election to go through the normal process. Whatever the outcome is, we will accept it. Why introduce confusion after the process?”
Recall that the Senate on Wednesday reportedly turned down a proposed change to Clause 60, sub-section 3 of the Electoral Amendment Bill that sought to make the electronic transmission of election results compulsory.
At the time of filing this report, the protesters had begun their march from the Federal Secretariat, heading towards the National Assembly gate.
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