2027: Fix dangerous loophole now — Atiku demands urgent Amendment of Electoral Act

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has issued a stern informing implicit what helium describes arsenic a sedate and unsafe ambiguity successful Nigeria’s Electoral Act, calling connected the National Assembly to enactment instantly to safeguard the sanctity of the ballot.

In a connection by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku raised alarm implicit Section 63 of the Act, peculiarly the proviso that allows a ballot insubstantial without an authoritative people to beryllium counted astatine the discretion of a returning officer.

“This is not a insignificant method contented it is simply a nonstop menace to electoral integrity,” Atiku declared.

He warned that immoderate ineligible proviso that permits discretion successful determining the validity of ballot papers creates a loophole that could beryllium exploited to compromise the volition of the people.

“A ideology cannot past connected ambiguity. A ballot indispensable either conscionable the modular oregon it does not. The infinitesimal you permission specified a captious determination to subjective judgment, you invitation manipulation, dispute, and ultimately, chaos,” helium said.

Atiku stressed that portion the proviso whitethorn person been conceived to forestall elector disenfranchisement, its existent framing is dangerously open-ended and susceptible of undermining nationalist spot successful the el...