Electoral Act: Time to push back on rigging – Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has joined different leaders of Nigeria’s main absorption parties successful Abuja to cull the precocious signed 2026 Electoral Act.

Speaking astatine a associated property conference, the absorption leaders called for a caller enactment of the instrumentality successful enactment with the aspirations of Nigerians.

Atiku expressed afloat enactment for Ajuji Ahmed, who criticised provisions of the Act, peculiarly Section 60(3), which allows the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to revert to manual transmission of results successful cases of alleged web failure, contempt the state having implicit 90 per cent net coverage.

The absorption leaders besides rejected Section 84(2), which mandates governmental parties to behaviour primaries either by nonstop oregon statement mode.

Describing the 2026 amendment arsenic “offensive, anti-democratic, and a deliberate effort by the APC-led National Assembly to undermine transparency and the sanctity of elections,” Atiku urged each absorption parties to unite successful defending Nigeria’s ideology up of the 2027 elections.

“Now...