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Seventy-five of the 91 registered political parties in Nigeria have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. They said that President Buhari’s speedy assent to the bill will save the country from the avoidable crises that characterised the...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant international and local observers access to its situation room during … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and World News – http://bit.ly/2QKt7KZ Get More Nigeria...

Human rights activist and parliamentarian, Senator Shehu Sani, (Kaduna Central) is the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). In this interview with ONWUKA NZESHi, he speaks on the consequences of President Muhammadu Buhari not signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2018 into law and other issues...

Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has faulted the refusal of President, Muhammadu Buhari, to withhold his assent to the amended electoral bill, saying that the president and his party the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had a hidden agenda ahead of next year’s general elections...

Gumel, a member of the caucus who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said the caucus would do everything possible to stop the move. Sen. Abdullahi Gumel(APC-Jigawa) has said that the Senate Caucus … Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s...

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has cast doubt over the possibility of having free, fair and credible elections in 2019 in the wake of … Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2SGeQvp Get More Nigeria Political News

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. Abubakar, a former vice president, gave the call after signing the Peace Accord in Abuja, as was disclosed by his...

Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that there is nothing he and his colleagues in the All Progressives Congress, APC, can do if Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers muster two-third of members to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to explain why he refused to assent to the Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 2018 recently passed by the National Assembly. The President’s letter was read by the Senate President Bukola Saraki at the … Read more via 360Nobs.com –...

The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to sign the amended Electoral Act. She said that the refusal would lead to a regression in the progress so far made in Nigeria’s ... Read more...

THE polity was divided, yesterday, over President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to veto the Electoral Act Amendment Bill for the fourth time. While some lawyers and politicians kicked and called on the National Assembly to override the president’s veto..... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria...

Three members of the House of Representatives, Kayode Oladele, Aliyu Magaji Dau and Mohammed Sani Zorro, have expressed divergent views on President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill. The post APC Reps disagree over Buhari’s refusal to … Read more via The...

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) says by refusing to sign the electoral amendment bill into law, President Muhammadu Buhari is willing to plunge the country into crisis. In a letter to the national assembly, the president said signing the bill into law could “create uncertainty...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has vowed that the federal lawmakers will resist any attempt to continue to frustrate the enactment of the Electoral Act Amendment bill, particularly the use of card readers for 2019 elections. Describing … Read more via Thisdaylive...