The Senate has approved direct primaries for aspirants to
all elective positions on Tuesday.
This was just as it empowered the Independent National
Electoral Commission to determine the procedure for the transmission of results
during the general elections.
The amendments were made on Tuesday by the Senate to some
clauses of the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) bill 2021, passed on
July 15, 2021, according to a statement.
The chamber approved Clause 87 to read “a political party
seeking to nominate candidates for elections under this bill shall hold direct
primaries for aspirants to all elective positions, which shall be monitored by
the Commission.”
The chamber explained that the decision to subject the
amended clauses of the bill to re-committal was reached after critical
examination by the Senate Committee on INEC.
The chamber added that some fundamental issues which
required fresh legislative action were observed by the Senator Kabiru Gaya-led
Committee in the bill.
Accordingly, the chamber in a motion for re-committal,
re-amended certain aspects of the bill contained in Clauses 43, 52, 63 and 87,
respectively.
The upper chamber in Clause 52 of the Electoral Act
(Amendment) Bill passed almost three months ago, had approved that “the
Commission (INEC) may consider the electronic transmission of results, provided
the national coverage is adjudged to be adequate and secure by the National
Communications Commission and approved by the National Assembly.”
The Senate, however, on Tuesday amended the clause when the
bill was subjected to re-committal to provide that, “subject to section 63 of
this bill, voting at an election and transmission of results under this bill
shall be in accordance with the procedure determined by the Commission.”
Members of the Conference Committee on the Electoral Act
(Amendment) Bill 2021, are expected to meet with their counterparts in the
House of Representatives to harmonise the two versions passed by both chambers.
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