Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmed Lawan has said the Senate will amend the Electoral Act. He made this comment during an interview with journalists in Abuja on Monday.
“We are going to amend the Electoral Act. We have had the 2019 elections, reruns and by-elections like the one held on Saturday. We should be looking at where there are challenges and what we need to do to provide legislative interventions going forward. This is going to occupy our minds,” he said.
This comes after three attempts to amend the Act failed as President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill three times.
The bill seeks to resolve issues surrounding INEC’s introduction of modern technologies into the electoral process, particularly, accreditation of voters.
It also seeks to mandate INEC to suspend an election in order to allow a political party that loses its candidate before or during an election to conduct a fresh primary to elect a replacement or new candidate. The new act will also grant agents of political parties the right to inspect original electoral materials before the commencement of election . It will also define over-voting to include situations where total votes cast exceed total number of accredited voters.
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