The National Assembly has begun work on the amendment of the 2010 Electoral bill which President Muhammadu Buhari rejected and sent back to the lawmaking body over drafting issues.
The joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill declared in Abuja on Monday that the board was currently considering the issues raised by the President for which he pulled back consent to the enactment.
Director of the Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Suleiman Nazif, who is Chairman of the joint council, while briefing writers before the board went in secret to improve the bill, noticed that “this advisory group is in the eye of the tempest” as Nigerians were expecting such a great amount from them.
Nazif likewise noticed that it would be the fourth time that the advisory group would take a shot at the bill, which had been dismissed by Buhari two times.
“I trust that what we are doing is to the greatest advantage of Nigerians,” he said.
The President had kept in touch with President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to tell the National Assembly over his choice to decrease consent to the bill.
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