President
Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he rejected the amendment made to the 2010
electoral act.
In a
letter read yesterday by the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, Buhari said "
Pursuant to Section 58(4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria 1999 (as amended), I hereby convey to the Senate, my decision, on 3rd
March 2018, to decline Presidential Assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018
recently passed by the National Assembly.
Some of my
reasons include the following:
"
A.The amendment to the sequence of elections in Section 25 of the principal
act, may infringe upon the constitutionally guaranteed discretion of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to organize, undertake and
supervise elections provided in Section 15(A) of the third statue to the
Constitution;
"B.The
amend to Section 138 of the principal act to delete two crucial grounds upon
which an election may be challenged by candidates, unduly limits the rights of
candidates in elections to a free and fair electoral review process;
"C.
The amendment to Section 152 Subsection 325 of the Principal Act may raise
Constitutional issues over the competence of the National Assembly to legislate
over local government elections," he said
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