Chairman, Presidential Advisory
Committee on Anti Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN has criticised the National
Assembly for reordering the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
election sequence.
The constitutional lawyer
insisted that what the law says on the matter is clear.
He noted that it is only INEC
that had been empowered to organize and fix dates for elections.
Sagay further advised the
electoral body not to obey any overriding of President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto.
He described the action of the
NASS to re-order the election sequence as given by INEC as unconstitutional and
self serving.
In a chat with New Telegraph,
Sagay said: “To start with, l don’t want to pride myself that I’m a
constitutional lawyer.
“I think I am among the lawyers,
who need to use the constitution. Therefore, I am learning as I am going.
“Now, if you check the provisions
of the law in the constitution about this, it says the INEC is to organize and
another word I can’t remember now.
“The second word implies being
totally in charge of arrangements of elections.”
Buhari had on Tuesday turned down
the amended Electoral Act bill in letters addressed to the Senate President,
Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.
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