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Nigeria’s National assembly passes Independent candidacy for elections bill, sends it to Buhari for assent

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Clerk of Nigeria’s National Assembly (CNA) has been directed by the Nigerian senate to transmit a constitution alteration bill No. 58 to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent in line with the provisions of the Authentication Act. The bill seeks to provide for independent candidacy in presidential, governorship, national and state assemblies and local government councils […]

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Nigerian National Assembly sends reworked Electoral Bill to Buhari for assent

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The Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill has been transmitted by the Clerk to the Nigerian National Assembly, Arch. Olatunde Amos Ojo, to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent. The reworked bill was transmitted to the president on Monday January 31, according to a statement by Senator Babajide Omoware, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on […]

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Again, Buhari withholds his assent to Electoral Act bill

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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has, for the third time this year, declined assent to the 2010 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018, citing some unaddressed drafting issues as his reasons for declining assent to the last version of the bill. Disclosing this yesterday while addressing journalists in Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President […]

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