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Polls reordering: We’ve over 50 signatures, say pro-Buhari senators
Members of the Senate, who are against the impending move to override President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, are now “over 50,” one of them told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday.
The senators, who are loyal to Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, have been collating signatures to counter the move by those pushing for the amendment.
The amendment, among others, seeks to reorder the sequence of polls during a general election.
A new Section 25 of the Electoral Act states that the sequence of the elections will commence with the National Assembly, to be followed by the governorship and state Houses of Assembly, while the presidential poll will come last.
The amendment had, however, polarised the Senate and the APC caucus, especially.
Punch, March 25, 2018
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