WHY IS THE OPPOSITION JITTERY OVER THE 2018 ELECTORAL ACT (AMENDMENT) BIIL?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 7. NO 279. 16th December, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WHY IS THE OPPOSITION JITTERY OVER THE 2018 ELECTORAL ACT (AMENDMENT) BIIL?

The controversy that has been generated by the Opposition over the non-assent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Electoral Act,  2018 (Amendment), Bill, should be addressed objectively in order to identify in true perspectives of what actually went amiss instead of casting aspersions and questionable blames over the entire process!

The process of the said amendment began with NASS legislators who initiated a hidden agenda based on selfishness avarice and greed by reversing the sequence of elections to begin with theirs instead of the Presidential as published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in January 2017!

The move was not only rebuffed but rejected by the President and INEC which is constitutionally saddled with all electoral matters but was tested in the law court where the learned judge upheld the electoral body's petition! And not satisfied, the law makers made three other attempts and in all, produced imperfect documents, which contained several grammatical and typographical errors!

Is it not very evident to all Nigerian democrats - at home and the Diaspora - that majority of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Legislators who took over as principal officers at the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly (NASS), on 9th June, 2015, by force, were charlatans who were unprepared for national assignments but only desperate to remain in political power at all costs?

Having tried unsuccessfully to destabilize the Change Agenda through nefarious anti-party activities these law makers who defected from the PDP in 2014 to APC, jumped ship to their former party in May 2018, in discontent but adamantly refused to relinquish their positions in order to further heat up the polity!

From the onset, the ruling government was quick to introduce the Treasury Single Account (TSA), in order to check 16 years of looting by successive PDP Administrations and that action did not go down well with the dishonourable politicians who chose the exit door but kept on castigating the President for refusing assent to the fourth presentation of the amendments to the Electoral Act, 2014, which was presented  late October, 2018 - very close to the 2019 Elections!

Prominent among the traitors were two NASS arrowheads, Senator 'Bukola Saraki and Honourable Yakubu Dogara, who threw integrity/caution/mien to the winds but coveted and held tightly to the lucrative principal positions for pecuniary gains while the very important legislative portfolio that should benefit the masses of the people in their districts and constituencies now suffer because of inordinate ambition and greed!

And is it not also very glaring now that these law makers and their cohorts in NASS were mere political jobbers, who were neither prepared nor bred to formulate or legislate, in view of the shenanigans now brewing over the 2018 Electoral Act (Amendment), Bill, which should have been assented to by the President as far back as January, 2017, if they had conscientiously carried out their constitutional duties?

There was an amended Electoral Act that was signed into law in 2015, and which is still in force as the extant legislation that should suffice for the coming elections as no vacuum was envisaged by the present administration in the lawful/constitutional execution of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), duties as the Opposition Parties now want Nigerians and the World to believe!

The moment President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to the Bill for the fourth time, major opposition parties led by the Peoples Democratic Nigeria (PDP), cried foul as if the 2019 General Elections would be grounded without the EPILEPTIC AMENDMENTS which had taken them over TWO YEARS from KINDERGATEN through ELEMENTARY and only managed to reach JUNIOR SECONDARY STAGE (JSS I), at NASS before it crashed again to ground zero! WHO IS TO BLAME, BUHARI OR NASS?

PRESIDENTIAL DECLINE TO ASSENT 2018 ELECTORAL BILL - RIGHT OR WRONG?
The very covetous legislators in their FIRST submission reversed the Electoral time-table sequence submitted by INEC, one year before their alterations which placed NASS/Governorship/ State Legislative elections ahead of the Presidential, which was in the number one slot! The President declined assent, INEC went to court and won the case against the greedy NASS legislators! The FIRST presentation died a natural death on that note!
The SECOND and the THIRD were full of “mumbo jumbo" languages that would confuse judges in the event of election litigations!
PMB'S REASONS FOR WITHOLDING ASSENT FOR THE 4TH TIME ON 6TH DECEMBER 2018!
Submission too close to elections,
Errors in tenses and expressions,
Fresh amendments can only be assented after 2019 General Elections to take effect from the next general Elections in 2023!
How can anyone complain that the non-assent of the bill would prevent the conduct of free, fair and credible election in 2019? This gimmick can best be described as pre-meditated sabotage against the ELECTORATE whom the law makers were bent on to confuse and deceive!

CAN THE COVETOUS NASS LEGISLATORS OVERRIDE THE PRESIDENT? CAN THEY MUSTER THE 2/3 MAJORITY VOTE AGAINST HIS DECLINE?
HIGHLIGHTS:
ONLY CARD READERS MUST BE USED FOR ACCREDITATION AND VOTING?
INTRODUCTION OF ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS FROM THE 120, 000 POLLING BOOTHS TO THE COLLATION CENTRES IN 2019 - LIKE IT TRANSPIRES IN THE USA AND SOME HIGHLY DEVELOPED NATIONS OF THE WORLD - AND,
TOTAL CANCELLATION OF INCIDENCE FORMS IN THE CASE OF FAULTY CARD READERS! And the opportunist law makers expected those REFORMS to be implemented immediately in spite of all their ineptitudes/incompetence! They surely have nerves! The Electorate should arm themselves with their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC), and vote out these CONFUSIONISTS!

The 2015 Electoral Act provided the platform through which that year's General Elections was fought and won without rancour. It is still in place for 2019! Nigerian Youths should not agree to be deployed as THUGS! They should instead support candidates vying for elective positions in the "Not Too Young To Rule" Party! A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!

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