{"id":123758,"date":"2021-12-22T05:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=123758"},"modified":"2021-12-22T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:23:04","slug":"senate-spokesman-basiru-slams-buhari-for-rejecting-electoral-bill-over-cost-of-direct-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/22\/senate-spokesman-basiru-slams-buhari-for-rejecting-electoral-bill-over-cost-of-direct-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate spokesman, Basiru slams Buhari for rejecting electoral bill over cost of direct primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson of the senate, Ajibola Basiru has stated that the argument of President Muhammadu Buhari on the issue of cost of direct primary in the electoral act amendment bill is &#8220;totally fallacious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the electoral bill on November 19 was transmitted to President Buhari for assent.<\/p>\n<p>Compulsory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/02\/direct-primaries-reps-summon-inec-chairman-over-n500bn-cost\/\">direct primaries<\/a> for political parties and electronic transmission of election results are among the amendments proposed by the national assembly.<\/p>\n<p>However, President Buhari rejected the bill on the grounds of insecurity and cost of conducting direct primaries, adding that the recommendation \u201cviolates the spirit of democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Basiru while speaking on the development via an interview on Tuesday said\u00a0the national assembly can explore four options following the rejection of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the four options, he said the national assembly can discard the bill like the eighth assembly, adjust the bill in line with the president\u2019s argument, remove the provision of direct primary, or override the president.<\/p>\n<p>The senate spokesperson said the option of discarding the bill in its entirety cannot be a \u201ccompelling reason\u201d for the national assembly, owing to the provisions in the proposed law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are the four options before the national assembly. And I believe the national assembly, at the fullest of time, will be able to take those options,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very important to say that as members of the national assembly, we are approaching this issue not out of any sense of egotism or any sense of power tussle with anybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we will consider it based on counter arguments that may be canvassed against whatever reasons the president had given.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor instance, the argument on the cost that had been raised by Mr president, with respect, is presumptuous and totally fallacious. There is nothing that is given that primary election must be conducted on a ward basis; it could as well be conducted either on a quarterly basis or on a local government basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs regards argument on smaller political parties, smaller political parties may decide to even organise their direct primary at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the issue of security, an extension of that argument will be that because we have security challenges, then we should not even hold the 2023 elections; this is if we want to use what logicians called reductio ad absurdum, that is reducing the argument to the level of absurdity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson of the senate, Ajibola Basiru has stated that the argument of President Muhammadu Buhari on the issue of cost of direct primary in the electoral act amendment bill is &#8220;totally fallacious&#8221;. 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