BREAKING: Reps to rework electoral bill, pass amendment Wednesday

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill will be re-introduced into the house, reworked and passed on Wednesday.

Gbajabiamila, in his opening address as the National Assembly returned from break on Tuesday, restated the benefits of restricting political parties to direct primary while criticising the parties for lacking comprehensive membership registers.

According to him, a strict direct primary option would have forced the parties to have a documented register. The Speaker noted that the general elections in 2023 are fast approaching, hence the need for the lawmakers to fast track work on the electoral reforms. He also noted that the parliament has the option of either overriding the veto of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , or amending the bill based on the President’s observations.

He partly said, “Unfortunately, that bill did not receive presidential assent and it is unlikely that it will in its current form. Now, we have to choose between sticking to our guns regarding the provision to mandate direct primary for political parties or reworking that provision to save the rest of the bill.

 

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To what end. No be suffer we still go dey?

ayemojubar With: No diaspora voting (Voter Suppression) No internet voting Ambiguous ElectronicVoting Ambiguous Electronic Transmission Penny fines for vote-buying and vote-selling The joke of us having more poor people than India, a country 7x larger, is as cruel as the truth in it

They no born them well to veto almighty Buhari 🤣😂😂

To favour Tinubu and APC I guess?

What u can do now is to allow contestants to decide mode of primary if any 1 of them insist on direct primary that will be done

Lol. 'We are not rubber stamp'

Ok oooooo

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