The National Assembly in Abuja is heavily guarded as demonstrators assemble outside the complex’s entrance, demanding the inclusion of “real-time electronic transmission” in the election modification law.
The demonstrators, rallying under the name “Occupy National Assembly,” demanded that the Senate be unambiguous in its provision for electronic transmission of election results, despite recent clarifications by the upper chamber denying that the move was rejected.
Members of the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were all visible on the scene.
As the demonstration began, civil society members, a few opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) members, and some women’s groups gathered at the complex’s entrance.
Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore said on Sunday that the National
Opposition Movement would hold a demonstration against what he called the “removal of electronic transmission of election results.”
Details later…
