Politics
Buhari refuses to sign Electoral Bill, gives conditions
President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the Electoral Bill passed by the National Assembly.
The revelation of the development is coming just as the 30 days ultimatum for the presidential assent elapsed.
According to the rejected letter quoted by Vanguard, the president raised concerns that the parties have their various constitutions that indicate that primaries should be conducted either directly or indirectly.
He also noted that until such provisions are amended, asking parties to do that through direct means would mean forcing the parties to conduct primaries through direct means which, according to President Buhari, amounts to abuse of the constitution of the party.
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The source who revealed the details of the president’s rejection letter said; “With all these reasons given by the President, he has returned the bill to the National Assembly, asking the lawmakers to look at the clause that has to do with direct primaries by political parties, work on it and return the document for assent”.
NewsWireNGR recalls that, National Assembly had on November 19 transmitted the bill to President Buhari for assent in pursuance of Section 58 (3) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended and the Acts Authentication Act 2004.
