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The Long Tortuous Journey to Electoral Reforms

The Long Tortuous Journey to Electoral Reforms
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Legislature/Executive Relationship Yielding Positive Results- Aid – THE AUTHORITY NEWS

By Gift Chapi Odekina  The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, (House of Representatives), Hon. Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub on Thursday stated the mutual relationship between the legislature and  the executive has so far yielded positive result and has led to the improvement of the nations economy. He also said that his principal is very much aware of the current situation in the country and is working very hard to alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians. This was as the former member of the House of Representatives, also hailed the National Assembly for the passage of the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill, otherwise known as PIB, as well as the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. 

Electronic transmission of results: The joke is on NASS, INEC, not NCC, By Aliyu Momodu

Electronic transmission of results: The joke is on NASS, INEC, not NCC, By Aliyu Momodu The Senate was fraudulent and duplicitous when it pushed the responsibility of electronic transmission of result to the NCC. The Nigerian National Assembly, Abuja Dragging the Commission to testify before the House on the feasibility of the electronic transmission of results was mischievous on the part of the lawmakers. It was a joke taken too far by a body that was supposed to understand the basics of the nation’s grundnorm, the Constitution. They feigned ignorance of relevant sections of the Constitution just to scapegoat the NCC and make themselves look squeaky clean.

It is unconstitutional to subordinate INEC to NCC —Dickson, ex-Bayelsa gov

Share Former Bayelsa State governor and senator representing Bayelsa West, Seriake Dickson is a member of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). He speaks on the controversial amendment of clause 52(3) in the passed Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, provision of three percent funding for Host Communities Trust Fund, as proposed in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and other issues. TAIWO AMODU brings the excerpts:   Can you give us your general appraisal of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and the Electoral Act Amendment Bill passed by the Senate before it proceeded on recess? The late President Umaru Yar’Adua sent the first PIB to the National Assembly. The PIB work started from Obasanjo’s time; that was when the idea was muted and during Yar’Adua, the late Dr Rilwanu Lukman, was petroleum minister when this bill came. This bill proposed 10 percent for host communities and also proposed 10 percent for frontier development but u

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