CSOs urge Buhari to speed assent to electoral bill
The Anti-Corruption and Research Based Data Initiative (ARDI) and Adopt A Goal for Development Initiative (AGDI) have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to without much delay sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Babajide Omoworare, in a statement last Friday, said the lawmakers had […]
The Anti-Corruption and Research Based Data Initiative (ARDI) and Adopt A Goal for Development Initiative (AGDI) have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to without much delay sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Babajide Omoworare, in a statement last Friday, said the lawmakers had transmitted the amended bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent.
He said the bill was transmitted to the President on Friday pursuant to Section 58 (3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
Speaking on the development, the Executive Secretary, ARDI, Chief Dennis Aghanya, said in Abuja that President Buhari should assent to the bill to engrave his name in gold for the advancement of the nation’s democracy.
“Our problem as a country has never been our differences in religion or ethnicity but bad leadership which has always failed to harness our God-given natural and human resources and that is why the clauses for the Electronic Transmission of Results by INEC and Direct Primaries by political parties during congresses must not be compromised, no matter the lobbying by some of the governors against it,” he said.
In a separate statement, the Executive Director of AGDI coalition, Ariyo-Dare Atoye, said President Buhari should rise above elites’ political conspiracy threatening the legislation and sign the amended bill into law.
“We wish to inform President Buhari that the governors versus National Assembly controversy over mode of party primary is not sufficient to delay the signing of the bill because the success or failure of party primary is mainly due to the character of politicians, and not the system,” he said.