President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to sign the amended Electoralthe third time, has sparked a lot of controversies.
President Buhari declined his assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2018, because according to him, it contains irregularities and draft issues.
However, the opposition party have a contrary view to the president’s refusal to assent to the bill. According to the PDP, Buhari’s refusal is simply a grand plot to rig the 2019 general elections.
In a statement by the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) National publicity secretary, Kola Olagbondiyan is solely because ‘he has failed abysmally. Writing via twitter on Wednesday, the PDP national secretary wrote:
President Muhammadu Buhari rejection is predicated on his abysmal failure and the deception of his party, the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the last three years.This is the reason Buhari rejected the amendment to the Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly, which practically checks all APC’s rigging strategies ahead of the 2019 general elections and for which Nigerians have approved that the legislators should override his veto.
This is the reason @MBuhari rejected the amendment to the Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly, which practically checks all APC’s rigging strategies ahead of the 2019 general elections and for which Nigerians have approved that the legislators should override his veto.
— Kola Ologbondiyan (@officialKolaO) September 12, 2018