Electoral Act Amendment: Senate’s Decision Sets Nigeria Up for Another Cycle of Disputed Elections
Ufuoma Nnamdi-Udeh, Executive Director of EiE Nigeria, strongly condemned the Senate’s action: “The Senate’s ‘cosmetic’ amendment to the Electoral Act is nothing short of a calculated insult to the intelligence of the Nigerian people. By creating a convenient ‘network failure’ escape clause, they have essentially legalised electoral fraud. This is not the reform Nigerians demanded, protested for, and deserve. We will not accept half-measures that preserve the same loopholes that made 2023 a credibility nightmare.”