Over 80 Senators have showed their willingness to go against the veto of President Muhammadu Buhari to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, for the first time since it was inaugurated in June 2019.
The Senators drawn across party lines wrote down their names as those interested in overriding President Buhari’s veto, as tension griped the Red Chamber.
The Senators took the decision after, Senate President Ahmad Lawan read President Buhari’s letter declining assent to the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment bill that was passed by the National Assembly.
It would be recalled that Buhari in the letter addressed to both the President of the Senate, Senator Lawan and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said he declined assent because of imposition of direct primaries for picking candidates on political parties violates the spirit of democracy.
