- Some presidential candidates have warned President Muhammadu Buhari against signing new electoral bill into law
- The presidential candidate of APDA, Alhaji Shitu Kabir, said that the new Act is capable of derailing the 2019 general elections
- He, however, threatened to sue Buhari and the INEC to court should he go ahead to assent to the bill
The forum of presidential candidates has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against signing into law the amended Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly.
Nation reports that the forum faulted the section of the new Act, which stipulates electronic verification of voters and transmission of results.
Legit.ng gathered that the forum’s chairman and presidential candidate of Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA), Alhaji Shitu Mohammed Kabir, said that the new Act is embedded with “deliberate hurdles” capable of derailing the 2019 general elections.
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The APDA presidential candidate, therefore, threatened to sue President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court should he go ahead to assent to the bill.
Kabir, who spoke after the 40 presidential candidates under the forum rose from a meeting at the weekend, argued that INEC did not have the capacity to respond to the challenges that might spring up.
The constraints and impediments of time and resources in difficult terrains, he said, would deliberately deny many local communities the opportunity to vote.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, December 2, finally reacted to insinuations that he may have been cloned and that he is not the actual person in Aso Rock as the nation’s leader.
Buhari, who is in Poland for an official engagement, said in Kraków, Poland, that he is alive and would soon celebrate his 76th birthday.
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According to Bashir Ahmad, his personal assistant on new media, the president said: "A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. It is real me... I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong.”
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