Nigeria, Feb. 8 -- The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has said lawmakers deliberately removed the requirement for mandatory "real-time" electronic transmission of election results during the clause-by-clause consideration of the Electoral Act amendment bill.

Mr Akpabio explained that the decision was informed by concerns that enforcing real-time transmission could trigger legal disputes if network failures occur during elections.

The senate president spoke at the launch of a book titled 'The Burden of Legislators in Nigeria.' The book is authored by former senator Effiong Bob and published by PREMIUM TIMES Books.

"All we said during discussion was that we should remove the word real-time. Because if you say real-time and the netwo...