While political parties are close to conducting primaries to elect candidates for the 2023 general election, the Act does not provide for members elected into public offices and executives of the parties, known as statutory delegates, to participate and vote in the conventions, congresses, or meetings of parties.
Without the provision by the law, Buhari; Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; members of the National Assembly, governors and their deputies, members of the State Houses of Assembly, chairmen of local government areas, councilors, executives of political parties, amongst others, would have been disenfranchised.
Resuming from break on Tuesday, the Senate amended Section 84 of the Act, passing the first, second, and third reading at a sitting. The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, who sponsored a bill to amend the Act, said the existing Section 84 of the Act “does not provide for the participation of what is generally known as ‘statutory delegates’ in the conventions, congresses or meetings of political parties.”
Omo-Agege added, “The extant section only clearly provides for the participation of elected delegates in the conventions, congresses, or meetings of political parties held to nominate candidates of political parties.President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, in his remarks after the passage of the bill, said the amendment became necessary due to the deficiency created by the provision of Section 84 of the extant Act.
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