Alleged Plot To Rig 2027 Elections: Okonkwo Urges  Nigerians To Reject Manual Transmission Of Results 

Amid mounting criticism of planned modifications to the Electoral Act, African Democratic Congress (ADC) chairman Kenneth Okonkwo has urged the Senate to fully remove sections permitting manual transmission of election results.

On Tuesday, during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Okonkwo requested that results be relayed straight from polling stations to prevent manipulation.

“Once they put that law that you must transmit from the polling unit, I am okay. So any polling officer would not leave the polling unit,” the actor-turned politician said.

He further argued that elections should be annulled where electronic transmission fails.

According to him, “The House of Representatives should go further to say that where it is not possible to transmit from the polling unit, that election should be cancelled.”

Responding to concerns over whether cancelling an election due to failed electronic transmission would be fair, Okonkwo maintained that the entire electoral process revolves around credible results.

“The reason you are doing accreditation, voting is for the result. If you do all these things to get a fraudulent result, what have you gained? You have actually emboldened the criminals. The only problem we have in this country is fraudulent elections.

“On the day we have free and fair elections in Nigeria, 20 years after that, we would become a superpower nation. America is sustained Today because power lies with the people.”