Senate sends Independent Candidacy Bill to President Buhari for assent

DAILY POST

The Senate, on Tuesday, transmitted the Independent Candidacy Bill to the President, Muhammadu Buhari, for presidential assent.

The bill, being sponsored by the Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Comrade Abba Moro, seeks to, among other things, alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), to make provisions for Independent Candidacy in the electoral process in Nigeria; create a platform for credible and eligible Candidates desirous to participate in the electoral process in Nigeria to so do without sponsorship of a political party; make provisions that allow anyone who’s eligible to stand for election to any political office as an Independent Candidate.

The bill is No. 58 in the Constitution Alteration Bill, and one of the bills sponsored by the Senator in the alteration bill, one of which was the Local Government Administrative and Financial Autonomy Bill that could not get through the State Houses of Assembly as required by law.