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2019: Senate, Buhari-battle ready over poll sequence

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Lobbying is in top gear in the Senate, preparatory to overriding President Muhammadu Buhari, if he decides to veto the recent amendment to the Electoral Act, which reordered the sequence of elections in the country.

This is as the apex legislative chamber is also warming up to slam heavy sanctions on Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, who entangled himself with the political web of his colleagues by alleging that the amendment to the Electoral Act was targeted at Buhari over his re-election bid in 2019. The same fate also awaits nine other senators.

….A senate source, who is also close to the Presidency, said that Buhari had been properly advised not to appendage his signature on the bill because he had been told that he was the reason behind the reordering of the election sequence, different from what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had rolled out on the 2019 general elections timetable.

New Telegraph, February 26, 2018

 

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