President Muhammadu Buhari has
listed reasons he refused to assent to the electoral act amendment bill sent to
him by the National Assembly.
President Buhari on Tuesday,
turned down the bill in a letter to the national assembly.
Some of the reasons as read out
on the floor by Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Buhari said, “Pursuant to
Section 58(4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as
amended), I hereby convey to the Senate, my decision, on 3rd March 2018, to
decline Presidential Assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018 recently
passed by the National Assembly.
Some of my reasons include the
following:
“The amendment to the sequence of
elections in Section 25 of the principal act, may infringe upon the
constitutionally guaranteed discretion of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to organize, undertake and supervise elections provided in
Section 15(A) of the third statue to the Constitution;
“The amendment to Section 138 of
the principal act to delete two crucial grounds upon which an election may be
challenged by candidates, unduly limits the rights of candidates in elections
to a free and fair electoral review process;
“The amendment to Section 152
Subsection 325 of the Principal Act may raise Constitutional issues over the
competence of the National Assembly to legislate over local government
elections.”
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