Protesters stormed the National Assembly gates Monday demanding real-time electronic transmission of election results.

The Senate deleted "real-time" from the Electoral Act amendment. Peter Obi joined civil society groups at the barricades while former Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai said he would have joined if he was in Nigeria.

Senate claimed it didn't reject electronic transmission, just removed "real-time" to avoid legal disputes when networks fail. El-Rufai countered that real-time transmission is precisely what stops manipulation at collation centres—where rigging actually happens. Emergency Senate session scheduled for today. The protest isn't about technical terminology. It's about whether your results go directly from polling units to public view, or pass through "traffic points" where they get altered. Senate's word games don't change what removing "real-time" enables: gaps where results disappear into collation centres and emerge different.