The spokesman of the Senate, Yemi Adaramodu, has dismissed claims that lawmakers play to the gallery.
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television on Tuesday, he said that lawmakers work painstakingly for the best interests of Nigerians.
The spokesman was addressing the controversy surrounding the amendments to the Electoral Act.
Bellnews reports that the Senate on Tuesday amended the Electoral Act, allowing for the electronic transmission of results, but made provision for technical issues that may arise in the course of elections.
In case of internet connectivity failure, the lawmakers said the Form EC8A will remain the primary instrument for result collation.
Adaramodu defended the move, saying it was a thorough job by the lawmakers.
He said, “Anyone who loves Nigeria will know that what we have done today is the best for Nigeria.
“We don’t play to the gallery. Then the minor minority that are so melodramatic about it, we don’t look at them to make laws because principles of lawmaking are not just something like eating amala.
“We don’t do something that we just wake up just on impulse and just say something, and then you say you have made a law. You have to be very thorough. You have to be very painstaking.
“It must be so painstakingly done that the flaws must not be so latent to the extent that it can repudiate whatever good trust that Nigerians will have in our system.
“So that is why it is not something that we just sleep and just wake up one day and say that we have made laws.”
He said the “shades of opinions about the bill is an indication that Nigeria’s democracy is thriving.”
Senator Adaramodu said, “like we know in Nigeria, and everywhere else where democracy is thriving, and we want democracy to thrive, there will be shades of opinions.
“There will be shadows of ideas, and then we have to listen to all. So that is what happened.”