2019: Ignore ‘Card Readerphobics’, Sign Electoral Bill, Shehu Sani Urges Buhari

Senator Shehu Sani has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the electoral amendment bill which has been on his table for over two months.

The Kaduna Central senator in a tweet on Tuesday asked the president to ignore those he referred to as ‘card readerphobics’ and sign the bill into law.

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“The President should ignore the advice of ‘Card Readerphobics’ around him and go ahead and sign the electoral amendment bill. For statesmen, the credibility of an election should be more important than the outcome of it,” Sani tweeted.

THE WHISTLER learnt that the president had initially complained of grammatical errors which were corrected but is now 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 address.

Fears that the document will be vetoed if returned to the National Assembly has stopped the president from transmitting it back to the lawmakers.

Already, some political parties opposed to the signing into law of the Electoral Act, under the aegis of “Forum of Presidential Candidates” have gone to court to stop the president from signing the bill into law.

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One of the parties to the suit, the presidential candidate of Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA), Alhaji Shitu Mohammed Kabir, who is the Chairman of Forum of Presidential Candidates, has raised alarm on “deliberate hurdles” capable of derailing the 2019 general elections.

Kabir specifically, said the new Act, which stipulates electronic verification of voters and transmission of results would deliberately disenfranchise many voters, especially in the rural and remote areas of the country, due to obvious constraints of power supply and internet connectivity.

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