 It's looking even bleaker for supporters of electronic transmission and that's because the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC says only half of polling units in the country have 3G network to transmit electoral results. The NCC's Executive Vice-Chairman disclosed these when he appeared before the House of Representatives. Dan Bata's representative told the lawmakers that a survey conducted in 2018 showed that 49% of units had 2G network and below. A member of the House of Representatives, Honorable Sergio, is joining us from Abuja. Hi, Honorable, good evening. Good evening. Oh, good evening. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. So, what's your take, personally, what's your take on this development? As you know, I remember the opposition and the opposition caucus worked out today, but from what I'm hearing in the news, the APC members that were left behind in the chamber passed section 52.2, which was in contention the way it came, the way it was recommended by the party. Well, maybe we can make do with that for now. How did you vote? Well, I voted for INEC to be allowed, sorry, I voted for electronic transmission of the results. And the simple reason I voted that way is to avoid a situation where INEC will be manipulated by the powers that be, because if INEC was truly independent, we would not be budging about this. I have said somewhere during the Loretta-Anoche saga that if Nigeria was a country where we are honest to ourselves, you will not be bothered who is the national chairman of INEC or who is a national commissioner. You won't be bothered. Who is the category member of any party, even if he's your opponent. But he turned out where the situation whereby the system is subject to control by the powers that be. It's just a safeguard that I voted for is to be legally put there that they should transmit electronically. But in any case, NCC came and they made it full of themselves today. I mean, the man that represented the executive precedents and CEO claimed that in 2018 we had 119,000 police stations and only 8,000 were not covered and in three years, you have not done anything about that, in three years, and yet you have the Universal Service Provision Fund, which is a 2.5% of the cost of oppression of the telecommunication providers. That's a lot of money. What's that money supposed to be used for? To provide universal coverage to the unsaved and undersaved areas in this country. And as far as we say, it will not take six months to cover the 8,000. The 8,000 have not been covered. But in any case, right now, with the new units created by INEC, we have 176,846 ballot police units right now. So I think they just need to get off their ass and do their work. But to say that we don't have universal coverage is a big lie. Because MTA, in their annual general report, sorry, annual AGM, last month here, claimed that MTA below has 80% coverage of this country. So why is NCC lying under oaths? But why has this issue been so divisive? Why is it generally just so much division in the House? Yeah, it's simple. Like I said, it's just an agenda thing. You allow INEC to use their discretion. Discretion can always be abused. So if you don't want the station abused, limit discretion as much as possible. INEC on their own have been pushing for electronic transmission of results. They did it in a show in 2018. But they were not allowed to continue in the 2019 general elections. They did it in a dough in my state and I was there. And I saw how easy it was. Because it avoids, it takes away this problem of hoodlums going to coalition center to fight for election results. We saw what happened in 2019. Even in my state in a dough, my own police units, we had all manner of people there. We slept there and I left there the next day, Sunday evening. And I can't explain the amount of tension there that day. Because anybody could have entered there, taken resources like they did in Nemo, and everybody would be in crisis, everybody would be running a heteroskeeter. But if you are transmitting the result electronically, if you take away any paper, it does not challenge, it does not help the system. Because the result transmitted is in the server. The paper is just a backup. And that's why we are saying, let's do the right thing. Let's do the right thing. If we don't do it now, when? The technology is available. The country that we are talking about, we thank God in section 49, it has been approved. And this Z-pad is just a function. That's the Z-pad for the transmission of the result. It's just an additional software that's embedded in the card reader. So we are good to go. Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much for your time. That's Honorable Sergio Sogun of the House of Representatives discussing electoral amendments with us. Thank you very much, Honorable, for your time. We'll still need you in our subsequent bulletins. In the coming days, we'll reach out to you again. Thank you.