Senate Commence Move To Over Ride Buhari’s Veto
The House of Representatives and the Senate have both commenced plans to over ride President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto after his continuous refusal to assent to the new amendment to the Electoral Act, which seeks to re-order the sequence of the polls during general elections.
According to reports the lawmakers are getting members to actualize it, just as they have however vowed to get the two- third majority required to override the president.
Before the letter from the President was read by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Senate had moved into an executive session at 11.04am and resumed its plenary at 11.35am. Senate President Bukola Saraki reported at the end of the executive session that the Senate deliberated on the workings of the upper chamber, the National Assembly and CBN.
According to Vanguard, a source at the executive session disclosed that Senate President Saraki alerted his colleagues that the bill had been rejected by the President and that the senate would need to take another look at the bill, just as the senators were said to have resolved to get further clarifications from the Legal Department of the National Assembly before going ahead with the planned override of the veto.
Meanwhile, it was also gathered that no fewer than 65 Senators have signed up to join in the battle to override the president’s veto, just as 43 Senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are said to be solidly backing the decision to override the veto while so far 22 Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are said to be supporting the idea.
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I don’t think at this time we need overriding the president, all we need now is for the NASS to move for impeachment of the president, because he lack the quality to lead the country due to his over whelming personal sentiment and lack of vision to see the condition he and his executives have dumped this country into.
Why is the president jittery about change in elections sequence. NASS has done the appropriate thing. Presidential election coming first makes election into other political positions unimportant. The turnout is usually low because the tempo would have gone down. Better we start from lower to higher positions so as to ensure larger voter participation at all levels as compared to past experience.