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Why we didn’t override President Buhari on Electoral Bill — Senator

The Eagle OnlineBy The Eagle OnlineDecember 24, 2021No Comments
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Senator Sadiq Umar (APC-Kwara) says overriding President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill by the National Assembly would have plunged the country into constitutional crisis.

The senator said this when he spoke with the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Ilorin on Friday.

Umar, also Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, said the senators decided not to act on the matter following the decision of the House of Representatives to stand down debate on the President’s letter.

He said: “What happened was that after the National Assembly passed the Electoral Amendment Act Amendment Bill, the President wrote back to us giving reasons why he could not assent to it.

“We believe some of the reasons, some we don’t.

“For the senate, we were ready to override the President at that time.”

Umar said, however, that the House did not address Buhari’s letter, adding: “They felt it was a hot matter that needs more consultations and engagement and kept it in abeyance to pass the budget with a plan to return to it after coming back from the holiday.

“For us, we were prepared to do what we wanted to do but given our rules and constitutional provision, even if we eventually overruled the President in the Senate, it would have been null and void because there has to be concurrence by the two chambers.

“So, the senators also bought into the decision of the Green Chamber to consult with our people so that when we resume, we will do what the people want us to do or what we think is best for Nigeria.”

Umar said the Senate was not a rubber stamp of the executive and justified the approval of all loans request by the President.

He said: “The popular saying is that Nigeria is a very rich, but that saying is erroneous when you juxtapose it with our revenue and population.

“The amount of money we need to revamp the education sector alone, the whole money available to government cannot do it and same thing goes for all other sectors such as health.”

ELECTORAL BILL Muhammadu Buhari National Assembly Nigeria Union of Journalists
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