Electoral Act: Nigerian lawmakers only concerned about themselves – Yunusa Ya’u

Convener of the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, Yunusa Zakari Ya’u, has lambasted Federal lawmakers, accusing them of passing laws that favour themselves.

Ya’u made this allegation connected Thursday during an interrogation connected Arise Television.

He was speaking astir the precocious signed Electoral Act Amendment.

He said that politicians, particularly Federal lawmakers, are not focused connected delivering escaped and just elections.

According to him, cardinal issues that Nigerians person been clamouring for are being acceptable aside, portion attraction is fixed to politicians belonging to 2 parties astatine the aforesaid time.

“I deliberation that what is becoming precise wide is that politicians successful the National Assembly are much acrophobic astir doing a instrumentality that would favour them.

“Now, they person enactment speech precise cardinal issues that Nigerians person been clamouring and are acrophobic astir a person belonging to 2 antithetic parties astatine the aforesaid time.

“I mean, they are the radical we person seen, due to the fact that they don’t judge successful immoderate principles. They don’t judge successful manifestos today, they are successful 1 enactment today, tomorrow, they are successful different party.
“When parties are genuinely democratic, they person functioning interior d...