It said there was no going back on the bill, particularly the provision on the re-ordering of elections ahead of the 2019 polls. A controversial new Section 25 introduced into the Act, changed the sequence of elections by making the National Assembly elections to come first while the presidential poll will now come last.
The amendment had passed in both the Senate and the House and its now awaiting Buhari’s assent. However, in the elections timetable already released by the Independent National Electoral Commission before the amendment was passed, the presidential election was fixed to come first.
Only on Monday, the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, had said that the commission would stick to its timetable and not the revised one by the National Assembly.
Yakubu, who spoke at a consultative forum with the media in Abuja, had said that so long as there was no new law in operation, INEC would stick to its timetable.
Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Abdulrazak Namdas, said if Buhari failed to sign, the legislature would override his veto. He added, “We are serious about this issue and we are not ready to reverse it. For now, the bill has gone to Mr. President and we are waiting for his response".
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Oluwatoyin Obanla
Stupid egocentric folks. We are better of without these sleazy fools