Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has assured Nigerians that the National Assembly’s committee tasked with harmonising the Electoral Act is set to meet and finalise its recommendations on the bill.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, Kalu, a former governor of Abia State, said the committee has been working intensively, including emergency sessions last week, to resolve differences between the Senate and House of Representatives versions.
The harmonisation process focuses on technical issues such as the transmission of election results. While the Senate approved electronic transmission of results without the “real-time” clause, the House supported the “real-time” upload of results from polling units to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal.
Kalu defended the Senate’s position, clarifying that voting remains manual and that electronic transmission is merely a method of sending results once votes are counted. He also dismissed recent social media claims suggesting he opposed electronic transmission, noting that infrastructure challenges have since been addressed.
The committee is expected to deliver its final harmonised position soon, which will guide the next stage of the Electoral Act amendment process.
