Buhari to sign Electoral Bill tomorrow — Presidency source
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Steve Oko The pressure to get President Muhammadu Buhari to sign into law the Electoral Act Amendment Bill heightened, yesterday, as founder of Stanbic Chartered Bank, Atedo Peterside; Methodist Bishop, Sunday Onuoha, and Chief Executive Officer of Albino Foundation, Jake Epelle, asked the president to bequeath the legacy of sound electoral […]
Electoral Bill: Reps in somber mood as Gbajabiamila receives, reads Buhari’s letter
…President reels out reasons for withholding assent By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has formerly received and read the letter conveying President Muhammadu Buhari’s reasons for withholding his assent to the Electoral amendment bill. This has confirmed media reports that the President had indeed rejected the bill. In the letter, the […]
Electoral Bill: Reps set to override Buhari, pass document into law
House of Representatives may not bat an eyelid in overriding President Muhammadu Buhari on the yet-to-be assented electoral amended bill.
The storm, party rebels and the Electoral Bill
By Azu Ishiekwene LAST week, the country was engulfed in a mutiny across party lines. After members of the National Assembly surreptitiously inserted a provision in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill calling for direct party primaries, governors, who rarely agree on anything except money, cried foul. They loaded their guns and opened verbal fire on […]
Amended Electoral Bill: Ubani lambasts NASS members over ‘legislative rascality’
The Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA- SPIDEL, Dr. Monday Ubani, has lambasted members of the National Assembly who voted to allow the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, play a key role in the transmission of election results in the just-amended electoral bill.
Electoral Bill: Our lawmakers in Abuja are selfish – Olanrewaju, ex-Communications Minister
By Dapo Akinrefon A Trustee of Ọmọ Eko Pataki and former Communications Minister, Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (retd), on Friday, lampooned lawmakers representing Lagos State in the National Assembly for backing the manual transmission of votes during elections describing them as selfish. Olanrewaju, in his reaction to the passage of the Independent National Electoral Bill, […]
Electoral amendment bill to be laid July 13 – Reps Spokesman
Mr Benjamin Kalu, the Spokesman for the House of Representatives, has said that the electoral amendment bill would be laid on July 13 before the House goes on recess. He said this at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, saying the report would be laid before the National Assembly proceed on recess. The News […]
Electoral Law, PIB: Northern groups battle southern governors
The Southern governors’ position on raging national issues, yesterday, raised dust in the polity, eliciting support and criticisms in many quarters.
Electoral Bill: You’ve betrayed Nigerians, CSOs tell National Assembly
…plan to occupy NASS till proposed amendments to Electoral Act were passed By Luminous Jannamike A group of civil society organisations, on Thursday, accused the Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan, and the National Assembly of betraying Nigerians after failing to meet two deadlines set for the passage of the Electoral Bill 2020. The group, which […]
CSOs demand electronic transmission of results in Electoral Bill
By Gabriel Ewepu CIVIL Society Organisations under the auspices of Coalition for Constitutional and Electoral Reforms, CCER, Monday, demanded National Assembly to do the wish of Nigerians on new legislation that captures electronic transmission of results and use of technology in the electoral process. This was contained in a statement signed by leaders of CSOs […]
Youth Party critiques electoral bill, makes important recommendations
In a Memoranda to the National Assembly Joint Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Electoral Matters, the Youth Party, yesterday recommended key amendments to the Electoral Bill that would strengthen the electoral process and deepen Nigeria’s democracy. The Acting Chair of the Party, Mr Tomiwa Aladekomo represented by Mr. Ifeanyi Nwoye(National Financial […]
Edo: PDP, Obi congratulate Obaseki as Secondus urges Buhari to sign electoral bill into law
By Dirisu Yakubu The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has congratulated Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, deputy governor, Philip Shaibu for their victory in Saturday’s gubernatorial poll, describing the victory as historic. Obaseki, who flew the flag of the PDP polled a total of 307, 955 votes to beat his closest rival, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of […]
‘Re-send Electoral Bill to President Buhari now’
A former Commissioner for Lands and Survey in Benue, Mr John Tondu, has advised the 8th National Assembly to re-send the Amended Electoral Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari before the end of its tenure.
Where’s the Devil in the Electoral Bill?
Exaggeration is the most common strain of fever at election period. Politicians make voters – and the general public – believe that the world might end on ballot day, when in fact what they are playing for is their own survival.
Buhari should sign the Electoral Bill
IT is amazing that just two months to the 2019 general elections the 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill, the legal framework aimed at conducting the highest level of error-free polls so far in our history, is still gathering dust on the table of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Saraki to Buhari: Don’t Listen to anti-democratic elements, sign Electoral Bill now
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to heed the advice of the anti-democratic elements who have now populated the political space and putting pressure on him not to give assent to the 2018 Electoral Bill.
