President Muhammadu Buhari is set to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, Daily Dates Nigeria.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this on Tuesday during an interview on a television programme.
Femi Adesina said: “He (Buhari) will sign it (the bill) any moment from now, It could be today, it could be tomorrow, it could be anytime, but within the 30 days.
“It could be signed today; it could be signed tomorrow. In a matter of hours, not days. Hours could be 24 hours, it could be 48 hours; not days, not weeks.”
This comes nearly a month after lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives chambers of the National Assembly passed the harmonized version of the bill.
House re-amended the bill to include the direct and indirect primary options, the Senate re-adjusted to include the direct, indirect, and consensus modes of selecting political parties’ candidates.
Both chambers, thereafter, passed the harmonised version – the final agreed version of the amendment to Clause 84 of the bill.
This included the direct, indirect, and consensus primary modes of nominating candidates by political parties for elections.
