Again, National Assembly Sends The Revised Electoral Bill To Buhari

The Nigerian National Assembly has again sent the revised 2021 Electoral Bill to President Buhari to sign it into law.

The Senior Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Babajide Omoworare, made this known in a statement on Monday.

He said the Clerk to the National Assembly, Amos Ojo, transmitted the authenticated copies of the reworked bill.

The statement read, “Mr. President had withheld assent to the Electoral Bill 2021 transmitted to him on 19th November 2021. The Electoral Bill was thereafter reworked by the National Assembly and both the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the same on 25th January 2022”.

WikkiTimes recalled that President Buhari in December last year declined the bill transmitted to him earlier by the National Assembly, noted that the mandatory use of direct primaries for all political parties in the country will be too expensive to execute and that it will put a financial burden on Nigeria’s slim resources.

He added that conducting direct primary elections will be tasking and that since such mode of election means a large turnout of voters, the move would also stretch the security agencies, also expressed fears that the mandatory use of direct primaries will amount to the violation of citizens’ rights and marginalisation of smaller political parties.

The National Assembly has now followed the President’s demands to remove a section that the President deems useless, and has now opened the door for parties to exercise a variety of options, including through delegates, primary elections and consensus in fielding candidates.

The president has one month from now to assent for the bill as approval to become a law.

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