Succour has finally come for statutory delegates as the president, Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the amended electoral act.
The amended electoral act which has been a bone of contention for a while now as the House of Representatives, Senate and other politicians who are statutory delegates have been urging the president to sign it in order to avert crisis was signed on Saturday afternoon, the 21st of May.
This was confirmed by a member of the House of Representatives Emeka Chinedu representing Ahiazu/ Ezinihittee Mbaise federal constituency in the House of Representatives.
Speaking to BusinessDay, Chinedu said “I can confirm to you that Mr President signed the bill into law this afternoon and we are all happy about it as it will give us and other statutory delegates the power to vote at the primaries.
“The amendment was swiftly done by the national assembly members to legally provide a place in the Act for statutory delegates of political parties to vote during their congresses and conventions.
“It will indeed do a lot of good for the upcoming party primaries” he said.
