Chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Kenneth Okonkwo, has urged the Senate to expunge the manual transmission of election results.

Okonkwo, in an interview on Politics Today on Channels Television on Monday, February 10, insisted that results must be transmitted directly from polling units to curb 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 also urged the electoral body to annul results from polling units whose transmission wasn't electronic.

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.”

He blamed Nigeria’s slow development on elections plagued by irregularities and stressed that democracy belongs to the people, not to any political party, whether ADC or the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Okonkwo called on citizens to collectively defend and sustain democratic governance in the country.