Nigerians are hoping that a new electoral law would enhance the quality of elections and thus believe that the amendment to the electoral law by the National Assembly would fast-track this. However, as things stand today with Nigeria’s Electoral Act Amendment Bill (2021), it looks like the bill is a script in the hands of some wrong, thoroughly off-beam actors. The last time electoral amendment bill was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018, he declined assent. That year, Nigerians may not readily remember that President Buhari refused to assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill three times. And now that it has become Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021, Nigeria has relapsed to the same old issues.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 01, 2022 01:19 UTC