A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Centre for Liberty (CFL), on Tuesday, called for immediate passage of the Electoral Amendment Bill as the National Assembly resumed sitting from its nine weeks recess.

The group, who staged a peaceful protest in Abuja, carried placards with inscriptions such as Nigerians deserves free, fair, credible and peaceful elections; Give us electoral reforms; Citizens ask National Assembly to give Nigerian electoral act 2020 and Pass electoral act 2020.

Addressing newsmen, the Co-convener of the group, Mr Ariyo Dare-Atoye, announced that over 11 thousand have signed the petition demanding for the passage of the bill.

He said President Muhammadu Buhari, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), CSOs and the media were ready for the passage of the bill but only waiting for the National Assembly who was the only constitutionally recognised authority to do the needful.

According to him: “We saw what happened in the Edo elections where INEC introduced an electronic platform where people were able to check the election’s result. Nigerians are desirous of a public hearing on the bill, so National Assembly should expedite action on its immediate passage.”

Dare-Atoye noted that if passed, it would reduce violence in the nation’s elections and the huge cost expended on it.

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Lalasticlala

Even if all other region agrees to this wonderful initiative, the North will still kick against it so as to enable them to continuously import almajiri from Niger Republic and Chad to come and vote during elections.

Very good!

Feelers coming from the north is that their political leaders see the electoral amendment bill as a southern bill. Basically they suspect that the move is to migrate to electronic voting which will disenfranchise many northerners who are not very literate. So as Southerners have shot down the Water bill so they will in revenge shoot down the electronic voting bill aka electoral amendment bill.


If you want the electoral amendment bill, give them their water bill

Nice

Where is the register, I want to sign

This is to show how the present rubberstamp NASS is totally useless in contributing towards the betterment of the electoral processes hence the democratic processes in Nigeria.

Given the sham elections being conducted by INEC (with exception to the Edo case) have been better described as war, the Nigerian government, INEC, NASS, political parties, electorate & independent electoral stakeholders ought to have been in the forefront of calling for electoral reforms.

Cyberterror:
Feelers coming from the north is that their political leaders see the electoral amendment bill as a southern bill.

Basically they suspect that the move is to migrate to electronic voting which will disenfranchise many northerners who are not very literate.

So as Southerners have shot down the Water bill so they will in revenge shoot down the electronic voting bill aka electoral amendment bill....

Well whether they like it or not, our electoral processes need improvement even if it will cause power to slip under their arms because this is one of the bane of our national development.This is because......

chinjo:
Even if all other region agrees to this wonderful initiative, the North will still kick against it.....

We must continue to make progress irrespective what others think or become stuck