Tag Archives: Amendement of Electoral Act

2019: Senate re-introduces Electoral Act amendment bill

The Senate has started a fresh move to amend the Electoral Act 2010. A new bill on the amendment has been presented and passed for first reading on Tuesday according to the Order Paper for today’ s plenary . The House of Representatives had re-introduced the bill last week. The first version of the bill, which was introduced in the ...

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Election re-ordering: Senate advised to override Buhari’s veto

The Senate has been advised to ignore the reasons given by Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, for not signing the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill passed by the National Assembly. Based on the advice from the Senate’s Legal Department, the upper chamber of the National Assembly would proceed with the process to override the President’s veto on the bill, ...

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