Electoral Bill: Ortom Agrees With Electronic Transmission Of Results

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(Last Updated On: 2021-12-21)

 

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has agreed with parts of the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill that adopted the electronic transmission of election results.

He added that ”it will engender transparency in the electoral system and also add value to the system.”

Ortom disclosed this while speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Makurdi.

He also agreed with President Muhammadu Buhari for declining to assent of the amendment bill basically on the issues of direct primaries as provided in the amendment.

He insisted that party primaries were the exclusive reserve of political parties.

He said that direct primaries was expensive hence only big parties with enormous resources could afford them.

On indirect primaries, he said that the process only differed with direct primaries in terms of election of delegates at the ward levels.

Ortom said of all the processes of electing candidates, the consensus mode of election was the best.

” On the consensus mode, members of the party come together and agree on a candidate thereby saving money , time and it is devoid of rancour,” he said.

He appealed to the National Assembly to accept the reasons deduced by the president while refusing to assent to the bill.

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