Following intense debates during plenary session in Nigerian Senate, efforts to amend the 2022 Electoral Act hit a road block in the chamber on Thursday.
The legislative process, which had commenced with a lead debate by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Electoral Matters, Senator Simon Lalong (Plateau South), met some road bock during the general debate.
This stoppage further progress on the proposed amendments, just as Senate President Godswill Akpabio, amid the heated debate, revisited the 2019 general elections, during which he alleged he was a victim of electoral injustice in his bid for the Akwa Ibom West Senatorial seat.
Akpabio lamented that while the returning officer, Peter Ogban, was prosecuted and jailed for electoral misconduct, the then Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mike Igini, who the senator claimed was the real culprit, was never held accountable.
The Senate, therefore, cut short on the consideration of the Electoral Act Amendment bill to another legislative day for further consultation.
