Reps to amend Electoral Act to enable running mate replace dead candidate
Thu May 05, 2016 08:59:am Politics
2.2K By sosa hills
The House of Representatives yesterday moved to prevent future confusion and uncertainty in the event of the death of a governorship candidate any time before the conclusion of an election like in the case of Kogi State when Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) died before the results of the election was announced.
The move to address this development was contained in the bills to amend the Electoral Act, 2015 with a view to offering more legal protection to the position of the deputy governorship candidates and other related matters.
The House, which consolidated six different bills of related headings, if passed and signed into law, would empower a running mate in election to assume the position of his/her principal in the event that the principal loses his/her life in the process of election before the results are announced.
The consolidated bills sponsored by House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila and five others include:
The bills are "A Bill for an Act to make Provisions to cover the Lacuna in the event of Death of a Governorship Candidate any time before the Conclusion of an Election and A Bill for an Act to Amend the Electoral Act 2010 to Empower Election Tribunals and Courts to declare Candidates who scored Highest Votes as Winners of Election when the Tribunal or Court holds that the Winner of the Election is Unqualified for Election ab initio" among others.
A Bill for an act to ensure that all political parties are gender sensitive and to eliminate all forms of discrimination in all political parties; a Bill for an act to include the use of card readers as part of the act and clearly specify the tenure of the office of the Secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); a Bill for an act to increase the amounts permitted.
"This proposed legislation seeks to pluck that lacuna to allow the deputy governor of a governorship election automatically take over in the event of the death of the governorship candidate," he stated.
The move to address this development was contained in the bills to amend the Electoral Act, 2015 with a view to offering more legal protection to the position of the deputy governorship candidates and other related matters.
The House, which consolidated six different bills of related headings, if passed and signed into law, would empower a running mate in election to assume the position of his/her principal in the event that the principal loses his/her life in the process of election before the results are announced.
The consolidated bills sponsored by House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila and five others include:
The bills are "A Bill for an Act to make Provisions to cover the Lacuna in the event of Death of a Governorship Candidate any time before the Conclusion of an Election and A Bill for an Act to Amend the Electoral Act 2010 to Empower Election Tribunals and Courts to declare Candidates who scored Highest Votes as Winners of Election when the Tribunal or Court holds that the Winner of the Election is Unqualified for Election ab initio" among others.
A Bill for an act to ensure that all political parties are gender sensitive and to eliminate all forms of discrimination in all political parties; a Bill for an act to include the use of card readers as part of the act and clearly specify the tenure of the office of the Secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); a Bill for an act to increase the amounts permitted.
"This proposed legislation seeks to pluck that lacuna to allow the deputy governor of a governorship election automatically take over in the event of the death of the governorship candidate," he stated.
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