The president, Muhammadu Buhari, has finally signed the amended electoral act, bringing relief to statutory delegates.
The amended electoral act, which had been a source of contention for some time as the House of Representatives, Senate, and other statutory delegates urged the president to sign it in order to avert a crisis, was signed on Saturday afternoon, May 21st.
This was confirmed by Emeka Chinedu, a member of the House of Representatives representing the Ahiazu/Ezinihittee Mbaise federal constituency.
He said “I can confirm to you that Mr President signed the bill into law this afternoon and we are all happy about it as it will give us and other statutory delegates the power to vote at the primaries.
“The amendment was swiftly done by the national assembly members to legally provide a place in the Act for statutory delegates of political parties to vote during their congresses and conventions.
It will indeed do a lot of good for the upcoming party primaries”.
