Two weeks after President Muhammadu rejected the third version of the Electoral Amendment bill, the National Assembly yesterday adopted the fourth version of the bill.
In the latest version, the Senate and the House of the Representatives joint committee on Electoral Matters made some adjustments in line with observations raised by President Buhari in the rejected third version of the bill.
Giving update on the outcome of the proposed amendment to electoral bill at a joint press briefing in Abuja, the chairman of the joint committee, Senator Suleiman Nazif (Bauchi North), said the lawmakers effected certain amendments on affected sections and deleting one.
He disclosed that National Assembly was now on the same page with the executive and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on issues of clauses in the bill.
President Buhari had, in refusing to assent to the third version of the amendment bill, listed about 14 contentious areas that must be addressed by the…
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