Why NASS can’t override Buhari’s refusal to sign new Electoral Act -Wike
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Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says the National Assembly lacks the temerity to override the refusal of the President, Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act amendment bill.
The governor said the federal legislature lacks the courage because it was part of the All Progressives Congress’ scheme to deny Nigerians free, fair and transparent election in 2023.
He said the only way for Nigerians not to repeat the 2015 and 2019 mistakes of voting the APC-led Federal Government into power is to send them packing in 2023.
Governor Wike made the assertions at the flag-off of Chokocho-Igbodo Road that was performed by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Monday in Etche Local Government Area.
The governor’s media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, relayed this in a statement he made available to newsmen.
The Rivers State governor recalled how most people did not believe him when he raised the concerns that President Buhari will not sign the Electoral Act amendment bill into law to give legal impetus to electronic transmission of election results.
“Three weeks ago, I told Nigerians that there is a conspiracy not to have a free, fair, transparent election in 2023 and that conspiracy was very clear. And I told Nigerians, Mr President will not sign the Electoral Act amendment bill,” he said.
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Governor Wike stated that having known the modus operandi, style and strategy of the APC, it was obvious to him and all discerning minds that the clause on direct primaries was inserted into the Electoral Act amendment bill as a ploy for the president to refuse assent to the bill.
According to him, the APC members are afraid that if results are transmitted electronically, they will not survive the 2023 general elections.
“What APC resolved in the meeting they had was that their problem is not necessarily direct primaries, but the electronic transmission of result in 2023.
“If they allow that, obviously APC will lose the election in 2023. So, they told themselves that the only way they can survive is to include the direct primaries in the bill so that Mr President can use that as an excuse, that he will not sign the bill,” Wike stated.
He accused APC governors and their National Assembly members of deceiving Nigerians that they were engaged in battle of supremacy over the issue of direct primaries, whereas they had secretly agreed to scuttle the possibility of transmitting election result electronically in 2023.
