Politics
House of reps agree to include consensus candidate clause in electoral bill
The house of representatives has aligned with the senate on a clause providing the consensus candidate option for political parties.
When both chambers of the national assembly revisited the electoral act amendment bill last week, the house approved indirect and direct primaries, but the senate went a step further by including the consensus candidate option.
In the first harmonised version of the revised harmonised bill seen by TheCable, the consensus candidate option was excluded.
But while passing another harmonised version of the bill on Tuesday after a motion was sponsored by Abdullahi Yahaya, senate leader, the lower legislative chamber agreed with the upper legislative chamber on consensus candidacy.
Yahaya said the decision to revisit the bill was because “some fundamental issues which require fresh legislative action by both chambers of the national assembly emerged on the clause”.
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