“I feel that the hullabaloo around this could have been avoided. Because I think we must not over regulate the activities of an independent commission,” Mr Fayemi said.
Ex-Governor Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa says nobody but God can change the National Assembly’s decisions on PIB and the electronic transmission of election results.
“While Airtel Nigeria had applied for the renewal of the Unified Access Service License (UASL) granted to it by the commission, the application is yet to be approved.”
The NCC says only about 50 per cent of polling units in the country have 3G network that can transmit election results electronically.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto says that the Senate has voided the 2023 elections by giving INEC’s constitutional powers to NCC.
This move by the Senate has denied Nigeria’s electoral commission (INEC) the power to transmit results of elections electronically, while NCC is given the power to decide.
NCC disclosed Buhari’s letter ordering telecommunications providers to suspend access to Twitter will not be made public, as it can result in national security threats.
As of October 28, 2020, the NCC had generated and remitted N344.71 billion to the government’s Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) in the last five years.
“The commission has only 324 staff in the entire federation with 14 offices.”
Communications and digital economy minister Isa Pantami has ordered NCC to review the country’s telecom operators’ licences.
