Electoral Bill: NASS Must Act Now

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It is not just amazing but insightful that Nigeria is still trying to grapple with amendments to the Electoral law, a journey that commenced since 2015.

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It reflects the level of priority the key stakeholders, besides the Independent National Electoral Commission , place on ensuring that the electoral system is improved upon. And there is no further indication of how less critical they consider the Electoral Act Amendment process to be than in the way the recent exercise has been treated by the National Assembly, in particular.

Just when Nigerians felt that the debate would be the last over the matter, the mandatory use of direct primaries for all political parties became the fresh tension point. In our opinion, that provision was intentionally inserted in the bill as a delay tactic because of its controversial nature.

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