{"id":917560,"date":"2022-01-19T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/itll-be-a-legacy-of-failure-if-electoral-bill-isnt-approved-says-shehu-sani\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:38:07","slug":"itll-be-a-legacy-of-failure-if-electoral-bill-isnt-approved-says-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/itll-be-a-legacy-of-failure-if-electoral-bill-isnt-approved-says-shehu-sani\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll Be A Legacy Of Failure If Electoral Bill Isn\u2019t Approved, Says Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_830505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-830505\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-830505 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Shehu-Sani-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"It\u2019ll Be A Legacy Of Failure If Electoral Bill Isn\u2019t Approved, Says Shehu Sani \" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-830505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shehu Sani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former senator Shehu Sani of Kaduna Central warns that the current administration will leave a \u201clegacy of failure\u201d if the electoral act amendment bill is not passed.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari had refused to sign the election bill in December 2021, expressing concerns about the recommendations of direct primaries for political parties.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Channels Television on Tuesday, Sani commented on the situation, saying that the national legislature should override the president and approve the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I can see from the statement of Lawan and Gbajabiamila, I think they lack the courage to do what is right. The courage to do what is right is to override the president and approve the bill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_ee1 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><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Gbajabiamila: We\u2019ll Reintroduce Electoral Bill After Amending Direct Primary Clause<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, when they (referring to the national assembly) passed that bill, the comment that came from them was that they have taken power back to Nigerians and then the president rejected this bill and then they just don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have no concrete plan on what to do. Nigerians need a credible electoral process and already they have a bill which Nigerians were happy with. So, if Nigerians accepted the bill, why should the president oppose it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the president opposes it, the next thing Gbajabiamila and Lawan should do \u2014 let them have the courage to override him and approve that bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I believe they should know \u2014 both the national assembly and the president. If there is any legacy that they will leave behind for this country, it is to let us have a new electoral act that will make the 2023 election better than 2019. If they fail in this, they fail in everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shehu Sani Former senator Shehu Sani of Kaduna Central warns that the current administration will leave a \u201clegacy of failure\u201d if the electoral act amendment bill is not passed. Buhari had refused to sign the election bill in December 2021, expressing concerns about the recommendations of direct primaries for political parties. In an interview with [&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-917560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917560","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=917560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}