The Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal
to assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill for the fourth time.
Recall that on Friday, President Buhari, in a letter to the leadership of the National Assembly,
outlined reasons he withheld assent to the bill.
The Bill makes the use of card
reader mandatory, and demands that the 2019 elections should not be conducted
with incident forms.
INEC said although the rejected
bill would have addressed controversies that trailed the 2015 exercise
especially the place of technology and others that the amendments seek to
address, Nigeria can still have good elections with the extant act.
INEC’s Director of Voter
Education and Publicity, Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, spoke to reporters in Abuja
yesterday, explained that the Electoral Act 2010 as amended in 2015 would be
the operative law.
He said, “While it may be better
to have the necessary amendments to avoid some of the controversies that
trailed the 2015 exercise, especially the place of technology and others the
amendments seek to cure, we can still have good elections with the extant act
as we did in 2015, which were adjudged free, fair and credible.”
On claims that 13.5 million
voters voted for Buhari without full biometric accreditation in 2015, INEC
added, “How was this determined? Biometric accreditation does not determine who
a person votes for. Put another way, the card reader is used for biometric
accreditation. It doesn’t determine how such persons vote.”
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