President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to amend section 84 (2) subsection 12 in the 2021 Electoral Act.
President Buhari had on February 25 signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law.
During the signing, he criticised the section, which he said “constitutes a disenfranchisement of serving political office holders.”
Section 84 (12) states that “No political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the convention or congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election.”
Buhari in his letter to the Senate insisted that the amendment is necessary as the clause constitutes a fundamental defect and leads to the disenfranchisement of political officeholders.
