Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, says
there is no alteration in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill as being speculated
in some quarters.
Gbajabiamila said this when he reacted to a point on matters
of privilege by Rep Ugouna Ozurigbo (APC-Imo) at Tuesday’s plenary in Abuja.
Ozurigbo had claimed that he received information that the
House Committee on Electoral Matters, chaired by Rep Aisha Duku (APC-Gombe) had
altered the bill.
“A number of Nigerians, particularly in my constituency,
have been calling me to express their concerns about possible alteration to the
electoral bill.
“I am a member of the committee, I don’t know the
information going around where they said that we carefully amended Section 50
sub-section 2 of the Electoral Bill.
“That the agreed electronically transmitted election results
have been changed to become manually transmitted,” he said
The Speaker, however, said that the speculation was
unfounded.
“I really don’t want to speak on a report that has not yet
been submitted to the House,” he said.
He said that the committee had been given an assignment that
would be submitted to the House once the job is finished.
“I have asked the chairman of the committee and she said
that nothing of such has been done,” he said.
Gnajabiamila said that the report would be laid before the
House proceeds on its recess on July 14.
Meanwhile, four lawmakers from Zamafara have defected to the
All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party.
They included Bello Hassan, Ahmed Bakura, Suleiman Gumi and
Ahmed Shehu.
This is coming barely a week after two lawmakers from the state
also defected from the PDP to the APC.
Their defection has increased the number of APC lawmakers
from the state to six, leaving only one lawmaker who vowed not to leave the
PDP.
(NAN)
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