Poll reordering: Pro-Buhari senators collate signatures to thwart Senate veto

Senators loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari have started collating signatures of their members as part of efforts to frustrate move by the Senate to veto the electoral bill, The Punch learnt on Wednesday.

It was also learnt that some All Progressives Congress governors have intervened to ensure that the Senate’s decision to override Buhari’s veto power in the passage of the amendment to the Electoral Act 2010 was not successful.

Buhari had written to both chambers of the National Assembly on his decision to withhold assent to the controversial Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill which seeks to re-order the sequence of polls in such a way that the presidential election would come last during the general elections.

It was reliably gathered that members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet and governors on the platform of the ruling APC had been mobilising members of the National Assembly loyal to Buhari to frustrate the move to override the President’s veto on the amended Electoral Act.

Punch, March 15, 2018

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