Posted by Samuel on Thu 19th Feb, 2026 - tori.ng
His remark is coming barely 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu signed into law the controversial Electoral Amendment Act passed by the National Assembly.
Following the passage and signing of the Electoral Act into law, former INEC Director of Voter Education, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, warned that Nigerians may be haunted by the ghosts of past challenges.
Osaze-Uzzi made this statement on Thursday on Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’.
His remark is coming barely 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu signed into law the controversial Electoral Amendment Act passed by the National Assembly.
Before the passage and signing of the Electoral Act, many civil society organizations, CSOs, and opposition politicians like the former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, kicked against the provision for manual collation.
They staged protests for days at the gate of the National Assembly in Abuja insisting on real-time electronic transmission of election results.
However, President Tinubu on Wednesday signed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026 into law barely 24 hours after it was passed by the National Assembly
Airing his views on the matter, Osaze-Uzzi said, “We’ve opened ourselves to the ghost of the past with proviso.
“Without sounding like a prophet of doom, we’ll be haunted by the ghosts of the past with the passage of the Electoral Act, as there hasn’t been any significant change.
“If we say transmission fails and allow the primary evidence of voting and candidate scores to be the manual form EC-8A, this will become the norm.
“Presiding officers may be compelled to claim there’s no network and ask collation officers to use the manual form.”