Executive Director of the International Press Centre, Lanre Arogundade, has called for legal backing to the real-time electronic transmission of election results.

Arogundade made this call on Tuesday when he appeared as a guest in an interview on Arise Television.

He said that Nigeria has advanced technologically that there can be improvements in BVAS.

“The transmission of results we are proposing needs a legal backing because if there is none, if INEC decides not to electronically trasmit, we will have problems.

“It is very significant in the sense that if the idea of real-time electronic transmission is accepted, it gives us two months of verification.

“The one is the results that has been transmitted electronically, and then the other one at the coalition.

“One is the results that has been transmitted electronically, and then the other one at the coalition.

“So I guess we just need a whole lot of understanding here because when politicians come in and they can easily cause a lot of distraction and diversion that’s why I said this is a time for us to properly enlighten ourselves by looking at what we are proposing and what has happened before,” he said.

Electronic transmission needs legal backing – Analyst, Arogundade