{"id":916977,"date":"2022-01-17T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/why-electoral-bill-should-be-passed-immediately-jega\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:17:20","slug":"why-electoral-bill-should-be-passed-immediately-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/why-electoral-bill-should-be-passed-immediately-jega\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Electoral Bill Should Be Passed Immediately \u2013 Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130973\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jega.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"525\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor Attahiru Jega, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has encouraged the National Assembly and President Muhammadu Buhari to pass the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s passage, he believes, will go a long way toward strengthening the integrity of Nigeria\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the former INEC Chairman has advised the government to do all necessary to guarantee that the country has a new bill before the next election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: Time Running Out For New Electoral Bill, Says INEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_287 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis country will be better off if we go into the next election with a new electoral law which will enhance the integrity of the preparations and conduct of the elections,\u201d he said during a Townhall on the Electoral bill on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jega pointed out that the bill contains a lot of new amendments that are crucial to the integrity of the electoral process and he believes that should be the primary focus.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jega stated that the amendments are the first in the last 12 years, and withholding assent to the bill, over a clause, would, therefore, be detrimental to INEC\u2019s ability to adequately prepare for coming elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega Professor Attahiru Jega, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has encouraged the National Assembly and President Muhammadu Buhari to pass the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 as soon as possible. The bill\u2019s passage, he believes, will go a long way toward strengthening the integrity of Nigeria\u2019s elections. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}