A few days ago, the Senate passed what it called the 2026 Electoral Bill. The House of Representatives had earlier passed its version of the same bill, and all that will happen next is the harmonisation of the two bills for onward transmission to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for assent.
What is interesting is that since the bill was passed, the Senate has been running from pillar to post, deploying wordplay—not facts—in trying to explain to highly enraged Nigerian citizens why the mandatory transmission of results from polling units in real-time, the most important item on the electoral reform agenda demanded by the public they claim to represent, was guillotined.
