Shehu Sani describes Buhari’s request to amend Electoral Act as ‘political deception’

Former senator representing Kaduna Central on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Shehu Sani, has reacted to the decision of the senate to reject the request by President Muhammadu Buhari, to amend the Electoral Act 2022.

Sani described the president’s request as an “art of political deception” while alluding to the fact that President Buhari knew what was going to befall the request.

In a tweet he sent out Wednesday, shortly after the senate threw out the request, Sani declared that political appointees with ambition for electoral offices, who would have been the major beneficiaries of the amendment, had it gone through, were now “on their own”.

Said the former senator, “If you think that the President is not aware that the Senate will throw out the amendment of the electoral act, then you don’t know the art of political deception.

“The political appointees are now on their own.”

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RELIABLESOURCENG.COM reports that President Buhari had signed the Electoral Bill 2022 into an Act on February 25 but with a request to the National Assembly “to consider immediate amendments that will bring the Bill in tune with constitutionality by way of deleting section 84(12)”.

Section 84(12) states as follows: “No political appointee at any level shall be 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”. Simply put, the section forbids political appointees from holding on to public offices while standing as party delegates as well as campaigning for their parties’ nomination to further their political ambitions. In essence, they should resign before seeking their parties’ nomination.