The Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday, urged the federal lawmakers to give full backing to electronic transmission of election results.
The PDP made the appeal in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja.
The statement urged members of the National Assembly to shun partisanship and vote in the nation’s interest on Section 50 (2) of the Electoral Act amendment bill.
The section dwells on electronic transmission of results in the country.
The statement quoted the PDP as saying that certain interests were plotting the rejection of electronic transfer of results in the National Assembly on Thursday.
“The PDP asserts that it behooves on every Nigerian, particularly the federal lawmakers, to work on the improvement of our electoral processes in order to engender free, fair, transparent and credible elections.
“The party insists that there is no part of Nigeria or any local government headquarters that communication network does not function, to warrant the exclusion of electronic transmission of election results from the law.
“It is imperative to add that with the technology proposed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, even where the network is slow, it does not stop the transmission process from arriving at the collation centre,” it read.
The statement further urged the lawmakers not to allow themselves to be swayed by anyone or any interest bent on manipulating the conduct of election in the country.
It advised Nigerians to stand for a true electoral process that would ensure delivery of democratic dividends.
