Buhari Likely To Assent Electoral Bill Wednesday

• The National Assembly on January 31, transmitted the re-amended Electoral Act Amendment Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.
• But the President withheld his assent to the bill in November last year, citing the cost of conducting direct primary elections, security challenges…

EKO HOT BLOG reports that sources in the presidency have disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari may sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 into law on Wednesday February 23, 2022. 

According to the sources, all is now set for the President to sign the bill.

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This comes a few hours after Femi Adesina during an interview on Sunrise Daily said President Buhari will sign the bill any moment from now.

“It could be today, it could be tomorrow, it could be anytime, but within the 30 days. It could be signed today; it could be signed tomorrow. In a matter of hours, not days. Hours could be 24 hours, it could be 48 hours; not days, not weeks,” Adesina said early on Tuesday morning.

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This hint also comes amid protests by civil society groups in Abuja demanding that President Buhari assent the bill.

The groups on Tuesday morning gathered and displayed various placards at the Unity Fountain asking the President to sign the bill.

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