SARAKI SPEAKS ON ELECTORAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL

Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, former President of the Senate, calls on the National Assembly to act quickly and outlines options for the bill’s passage now that the President has decided to decline assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill. I am confident that I speak on behalf of millions of Nigerians in urging the National Assembly to act swiftly. This is because we cannot afford to allow a single contentious clause to undermine all the positive aspects of the proposed Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill. At this juncture, we have two options…

Abubakar Bukola Saraki MBBS CON (pronunciationⓘ; born on 19 December 1962) is a Nigerian politician who served as the 13th president of the Nigerian Senate from 2015 to 2019.[1][2] He previously served as the governor of Kwara State from 2003 to 2011; and was elected to the Senate in 2011, under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), representing the Kwara Central Senatorial District, and then re-elected in the 2015 general elections