National Assembly members and other statutory delegates are still unsure of their eligibility to vote in next week’s presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following indications last night that President Muhammadu Buhari might not sign the latest amendment to the Electoral Act 2022.
The two main parties are themselves in a quandary over the development and have been unable to provide satisfactory answers to state party officials who have been making frantic phone calls to seek clarification on the eligibility of statutory delegates
The parties and the leadership of the National Assembly have been putting pressure on the president to sign the amended Act.
If the status quo remains until the primaries, only persons elected as ad hoc delegates to the primaries will be eligible to vote to elect the presidential candidates.
