Nigerians rose in unison yesterday condemning the Senate for rejecting a proposed amendment to Clause 60, Subsection 3, of the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Amendment Bill 2026 which sought to make the electronic transmission of election results mandatory. The Senate passed the Bill last Wednesday after the third reading.

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has called for the introduction of early voting in Nigeria to address what he described as the systemic disenfranchisement of essential election-day workers.

“The vagabonds in PDP; they grew up in 2015. They had their time and 10 years — a decade — they practised their ‘vagabondcy’ in the PDP. But they were expelled in November 2025, so no more vagabonds in PDP…So whatever it is that they are doing, you should be able to trace it back to their origin.”

AS Nigeria inches toward the 2027 general elections, widening cracks within opposition parties are fueling fears that President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may secure a second term long before voters head to the polls.

“We view it as betrayal. In fact, we have never seen such a betrayal in our lifetime. Because he had spent almost 40 years together with his godfather, especially in politics… Kwankwaso trusted him so much that he was a custodian of all his credentials and documents, and was also on top of everything. But look at what has happened. Therefore, we see the defection of Governor Abba as a total betrayal of the Kwankwassiya Movement”