While reacting to the news that President Buhari has withheld assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill and returned the Bill to the National Assembly, the CNPP in a statement signed by its Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, said “what would have been shocking is Mr. President assenting the bill.”
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The president had said that the amendment to the sequence of the elections in section 25 of the Principal Act may infringe on the constitutionally-guaranteed discretion of Independent National Electoral Commission to organise and supervise all elections.
The bill, which was presented by Sen. Suleiman Nazif, passed first reading at plenary.
A National Commissioner in the commission, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu, stated this in Abuja against the backdrop of the proposed amendment to the Act by the House of Representatives with regard to the order of the 2019 general elections.
Yakubu made the remarks when he led other National Commissioners of INEC on a thank you visit to the Senate for a job well-done
The passage of bill followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission on a Bill for an Act to amend the Electoral Act No. 6, 2010 and for other related matters (SB 231 and SB 234)
It also observed that senior citizens used to have a hectic time coping with younger people on the queue, even though they were allowed in some instances to have the first go