The protest at the National Assembly over the Senate’s refusal to mandate electronic transmission of election results is more than a civic demonstration.
It is a loud expression of public distrust in Nigeria’s electoral process and a demand for reforms that reflect the digital age.
At the heart of the controversy lies a familiar argument: that Nigeria lacks sufficient digital coverage to support nationwide electronic transmission of election results.
While this concern is not entirely unfounded, it risks becoming a convenient excuse for resisting change rather than a genuine obstacle to reform.
Nigeria today is not the same country it was two decades ago.
Mobile telephony has penetrated vast swathes of the nation, internet usage has grown exponentially, and digital platforms now power banking, commerce, identity management, and public services.
From BVN to NIN, from online tax payments to mobile money transfers, Nigerians routinely conduct sensitive transactions electronically.
To argue that elections alone must remain largely manual is increasingly difficult to justify.
INEC’s deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) during the 2023 general elections provided valuable lessons.
Where network coverage was strong, results were uploaded swiftly and transparently.
Where connectivity was weak, uploads were delayed.
The problem, therefore, was not the technology itself but the uneven distribution of digital infrastructure across the country.
This unevenness, however, should not be used to halt progress.
No national system in Nigeria—electricity, water, healthcare, or even road networks—achieves perfect uniformity. Yet governance does not grind to a halt because of these imperfections
Instead, hybrid solutions are adopted, allowing progress while gaps are gradually closed.
A similar approach can work for elections. By 2027, electronic transmission of results should be the default method, backed by the law, while allowing carefully regulated alternatives in genuinely unserved areas.
Such alternatives must be transparent, time-bound, and fully auditable, leaving little room for manipulation.
More importantly, the debate over electronic transmission is fundamentally about trust.
Nigerians have repeatedly witnessed how manual collation becomes the weakest link in the electoral chain—opaque, slow, and vulnerable to interference.
Electronic transmission offers speed, traceability, and public confidence, even if it is not yet perfect.
If Nigeria can expand digital banking to rural communities, deploy mobile networks for security surveillance, and connect millions to the internet for commercial purposes, then it can certainly improve connectivity around polling units over the next two years—if there is political will.
The 2027 elections present a choice. Nigeria can continue to cite infrastructural limitations while clinging to systems that breed suspicion, or it can commit to reform, using technology to strengthen democracy rather than fear it.
Electronic transmission of election results should not be treated as a radical experiment. It is a necessary step toward restoring confidence in the ballot and proving that Nigeria’s democracy can evolve with its people.
The question, therefore, is no longer whether Nigeria can electronically transmit election results in 2027. It is whether those in power are willing to make transparency the rule rather than the exception.
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