Electoral Act Amendment Bill: Pressure mounts on National Assembly to override President

There is pressure on the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021, it was learnt yesterday. Civil Society Organisations, including Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) and YIAGA Africa, said that the bill should be given legal tooth by the parliament through a two-third majority vote of members. But, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike differed saying that the National Assembly lacked the capacity to reverse the President’s decision. CTA, in a statement by its Executive Director, Faith Nwadishi, urged the National Assembly to, in the “spirit of patriotism, upturn the President’s decision as

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