ABUJA: The Young Progressives Party (YPP) has rejected the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill passed by the Senate, faulting its failure to make electronic transmission of results from polling units to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV) mandatory.
The party, in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Wale Martins, described the Senate’s action as “giving with one hand and taking with the other.”
According to YPP, the deliberate exclusion of mandatory electronic transmission—the most critical amendment was designed to preserve a dysfunctional electoral process that benefits Nigeria’s entrenched political class.
It warned that any Electoral Act lacking compulsory e-transmission of results would invite fraud and must be firmly resisted by Nigerians.
The party urged civil society organisations, youth groups, labour unions and professional bodies to immediately demand a reversal of what it described as an anti-democratic decision.
“Of all the proposed amendments to the Electoral Act, the most pivotal—mandatory electronic transmission of results—was cleverly avoided.
“This action is deliberate and self-serving. It is designed to preserve a dysfunctional electoral process that benefits only a political class,” the party stated.
YPP also called on President Bola Tinubu to withhold assent to the bill, stressing that compulsory electronic transmission remained vital to restoring public confidence in Nigeria’s electoral system.
The party warned that Nigeria’s democracy must not be sacrificed for elite convenience, insisting that the will of the people must prevail.
