{"id":121548,"date":"2021-12-16T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=121548"},"modified":"2021-12-16T05:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:18:18","slug":"falana-reveals-why-president-is-reluctant-to-assent-to-electoral-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/16\/falana-reveals-why-president-is-reluctant-to-assent-to-electoral-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Falana reveals why President is reluctant to assent to electoral bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana has disclosed that some governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) are influencing President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s decision not to assent to the electoral bill.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the national assembly on November 19 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/nass-transmits-electoral-bill-2021-to-buhari\/\">transmitted <\/a><\/strong><span class=\"acssf62a8\">the electoral act amendment bill to the president for assent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">According to the constitution, the president has 30 days within which he is expected to assent to the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">However, according to law, the national assembly can override Buhari by a two-third vote in a case where no action is taken by the president on the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">In the case of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/14\/we-wont-go-to-war-with-buhari-over-electoral-bill-says-senate-spokesman\/\">electoral bill<\/a>, the deadline for the presidential assent is December 19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Falana while speaking<span class=\"acssf62a8\"> on the development on Wednesday revealed that the president is reluctant to assent to the bill due to pressure from some governors who are worried about certain amendments in the electoral act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">He said the governors, who are in the ruling party, are concerned about the provision of electronic voting, which he alleged would make election manipulation difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">\u201cThe president is reluctant to give assent to the bill because the powerful governors in his party, the ruling party, are saying it is going to be much more expensive for them to run direct primaries,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">\u201cTherefore, throw away the baby and the bath water. But where they\u2019re actually going is that those governors have not recovered from the shock of\u00a0 having electronic vote. They know manipulation will be reduced to the minimum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">\u201cThat\u2019s why they are asking the president to throw away that bill. They aren\u2019t saying \u2018take it back to the national assembly so that the area of direct primaries can be removed\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"acssf62a8\">\u201cThe bill can be rejected only on one ground. The 2018 bill was rejected by the president on the ground that it\u2019s too close to the 2019 election. Now, the president may also say signing this bill now may be too close to the election and might cause confusion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana has disclosed that some governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) are influencing President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s decision not to assent to the electoral bill. 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