The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, reintroduced the rejected Electoral Act Amendment Bill and approved direct and indirect primary clauses as a mode of electing candidates by political parties for general elections.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in December 2021 withheld his assent to the bill transmitted to him, citing the impracticality of the direct primary mode for now.
The rejection, however, compelled both the House and the Senate to reconsider the bill and vote to include “direct and indirect primary” provision in the electoral bill.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, had at the plenary, on Tuesday, hinted that the House would revisit the rejected Bill and would do the needful because of its importance to the 2023 general elections.
Consequently, the Bill was reintroduced on Wednesday at the Plenary.
While reconsidering the bill in the committee of the whole, the House unanimously passed the provisions Section 84(2) that accommodate direct and indirect mode of primaries.
Details later…
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