Buhari’s Refusal To Sign Amended Electoral Act May Spark Crisis-Rep

The delay in the passage of the Electoral Act, following the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari, to assent to the amendment by the National Assembly, has been described as a recipe to crisis ahead the 2023 general elections.
Hon. Dumnamene Dekor, representing Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency, Rivers State, in the House of Representatives raised the alarm in an interview with Aljazirah in his office in Abuja.
He noted that, “We have about 371 days to an election, when the election is supposed to be proclaimed, up till this moment, technically about 11 days from now and Mr. President is set to give his assent, we sincerely hope he does, because by 18th of February, it will be such a worrisome situation”
According to the lawmaker, most of the things we talked about that people are fraudulently elected, the kind of crisis seen in our electoral process, the militarisation of elections, particularly in Rivers, where I come from, I believe some of those things will come to an end”, he observed.
He explained that, “With a better electoral process, it will be easy, if I am not popular and I have used whatever means to come here with the provisions of the Act, if elections result are transmitted from the polling units, it will remove a lot of fraud from the system. It will also make our elections cheaper in the long run in terms of manpower, because you have to recruit so many men, the risk corps members are going through and so many others in the process will be reduced.
“All these people running to the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), where the electoral materials are kept for safety , monitoring all the process because of the issue of trust doesn’t exist within the system, will be taken away if the bill is assented to; to that extent, Mr. President can do Nigeria and Nigerians a lot of good by giving his assent”