Anxiety In Senate, House As Buhari Rejects Polls Bill And Many Other Interesting Headlines For Today.
All the newspaper headlines have the same captions as regards President Mohammadu Buhari Poll rejection. THE NATION reports that there was anxiety in the Senate and the House of Respresentatives yesterday following President Muhammadu Buhari’s rejection of the bill on the reordering of the 2019 election sequence.
Also on the same caption, THE PUNCH says President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday withhold the assent to the 2010 Electoral Act(amendment) Bill 2018 passed by both chambers of the National Assembly which reordered the sequence of the 2019 general elections.
The GUARDIAN reports that president Mohammadu Buhari yesterday disc;osed the withholding of assent to the Electoral Act amendment Bill 2018, heighting tension in the political drama that could determine the outcome of the new year’s general elections.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday dared the National Assembly by withholding the assent to the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2018 recently transmitted to him following its passage by the lawmakers. Coming from the DAILY INDEPENDENT.
DAILY SUN Ssays that the Executive and the legislature may be heading for another major showdown following the decisions of President Muhammadu Buhari to decline Presidential Assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018.
Still on the same caption, VANGUARD also says that strong indications emerged yesterday that another crisis may be looming between the Presidency and the Legislative arm of government , as President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, declining assent to the new amendment to the Electoral Act, which seeks to re-order the sequences of polls during 2019 general elections.
And NEW TELEGRAPH says that President Muhammadu Buhari has dared the National Assembly by declining assent to the Electoral Act (amendment) bill 2018, citing citing constitutional breaches in some of the actions of the law makers in the alteration of process.
And Finally ThHE PUNCH goes off the much discussed news of the bill rejection of Mr President with the news of the IG of police. Buhari queries IG, demands full reports of police operations. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari seized the opportunity of the encounter to query Idris for flouting his directive that he should relocate to Benue State following the killings recorded in the state
