President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he will sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill on the condition that the National Assembly becomes democratic and include other modes of selection of candidates.
This was made known during the President’s interview with Channels TV on Wednesday which was monitored by Journalist101, where the president emphasized that the National Assembly needs to give the people other options of primary elections which must include consensus candidature and indirect primary mode of selection.
President Buhari was quoted saying “All I said, there should be options. We must not insist that it has to be direct; it should be consensus and indirect.”
The president said he will sign the bill if the lawmakers makes amendments to it stating that “There should be options; you can’t dictate to people and say you are doing democracy. Give them other options so they can make a choice.”
It will be recalled that President Buhari had recently declined assent to the Electoral Bill forwarded to him on November 19.
