Why Buhari may still reject 2018 Electoral Bill

WITH less than three months to the 2019 polls, indications have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari may still not append his signature to the Electoral Bill, which the National Assembly has since transmitted to him for assent.

Vanguard learned last night that the President was uncomfortable with some aspects of the law, which he had severally rejected and returned to the NASS and which the lawmakers had also bent backwards many times to adjust to meet the remit of the President for assent.

It was gathered that the Presidency was finding it difficult to openly reject the bill and return it to the NASS, knowing that with the mass of opposition in the legislature against him, the lawmakers would easily veto him.

Vanguard, December 3, 2018

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