Yakubu made the call at the inauguration of the Joint Technical Committee on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill on Friday in Abuja.
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Lawan stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents shortly after the signing of the 2021 Appropriation Bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Thursday.
The Governor bared his mind on Monday while receiving the new INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ebonyi State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Chukwu, who paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Abakaliki
Kalu (APC-Abia), who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja, said Nigeria must strengthen its electoral institutions to reduce the influence of those in power.
“We are working to pass the 2021 budget by the second week of December by the Grace of God,” Lawan said at a retreat for top management staff of the National Assembly and National Assembly Service Commission
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, disclosed this at a press conference on Monday in Abuja.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, at a news conference in Abuja alleged that there were plots by certain interests to use frivolous lawsuits to scuttle the scheduled date.
The bill, which seeks to ensure equal playground for all contestants in elections, was sponsored by Rep. Olawale Raji (APC-Lagos) at the plenary on Tuesday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed September 19 as the date for the governorship election in Edo State and October 10 for Ondo State governorship poll.
The Presidency on Tuesday welcomed endorsement of 2019 Presidential Elections, described as free, fair and credible, by 60 presidential candidates and chairmen of their parties, urging opposition to accept loss with grace and maturity.
Election in the AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency on Februry 23 did not comply with constituency House of Representatives, did not comply with the Electoral Act and the INEC guidelines.
In its determination to reform the nation’s political process as well as the operations of the petroleum industry, the Senate on Wednesday passed a re-drafted version of the Independent National Electoral Commission Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill, 2019; Petroleum Industry Governance) Bill, 2019; and five other Bills to which President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier declined assent.
James Faleke, Member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, on Monday expressed confidence that the 9th National Assembly would amend the Electoral Act within its first year of inauguration.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has reminded the Independent National Electoral Commission that it has wide powers to de-register political parties that failed to scale some minimum electoral tests.
An International Election Observer group that monitored the general elections in Nigeria, Pan African Women projects, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the amended Electoral Act.
The presidential candidate of the National Rescue Movement, Usman Ibrahim-Alhaji, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to court over alleged excess spending on campaigns.
Deputy Commissioners of Police in charge of operations at zonal and state commands have been charged to deal with politicians who violate the Electoral Act during upcoming elections.
Contrary to their claims, President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress are flagrantly violating the Constitution and the Electoral Act 2010 as amended by their unbridled deployment of state resources and apparatuses for the 2019 presidential campaign.
Gumel, a member of the caucus who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said the caucus would do everything possible to stop the move.
Sowore spoke on Thursday with aviation correspondents at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, after he arrived from United States, aboard a Delta Air Lines flight.