{"id":21341,"date":"2021-04-14T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:02:53","slug":"senator-electoral-act-amendment-bill-will-be-passed-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/senator-electoral-act-amendment-bill-will-be-passed-in-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator: Electoral act amendment bill will be passed in second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the senate committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kabiru Gaya has stated that the electoral act amendment bill will be passed by the national assembly in the second quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This statement was made by Senator Gaya when he\u00a0featured on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the senator, the amendment bill is ready \u2014 after passing through several processes \u2014 adding that what\u2019s left is the final passage.<\/p>\n<p>Passage of the electoral amendment bill has witnessed a series of postponements by the ninth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/21\/serap-sues-lawan-gbaja-over-missing-n4-4bn-national-assembly-fund\/\">national assembly<\/a>, while many political stakeholders have expressed optimism that the bill will be passed before the conduct of the Anambra governorship election scheduled for November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment bill was initially introduced by the eighth national assembly under the leadership of Bukola Saraki, but President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent three consecutive times.<\/p>\n<p>When the president rejected the bill for the third time in December 2018, he noted that it would create uncertainty for the 2019 elections.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ninth senate reintroduced the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the latest development regarding the matter, Gaya noted that the amendment bill will soon be passed and that there will be no further delay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assure you that within this quarter, because we have other processes in the senate and it is not only the electoral act bill. 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