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Both the Senate and the House of Representatives on Monday did not react to Buhari’s withdrawal of presidential assent to the bill.
Efforts to get key officials of the two chambers of the National Assembly to speak on the matter proved abortive.
When contacted, the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, said he could not confirm if his boss, Saraki, had received the letter.
For further comments, Olaniyonu referred one of our correspondents to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi-Abdullahi; and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Suleiman Nazif, who sponsored the bill and who was Chairman of the Senate and House of Representatives’ Joint Committee on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.
Nazif could not be reached for comments as calls made to his telephone did not connect.
The spokesperson for the Senate could not be reached to react to the assent withdrawal.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi-Abdullahi, rejected a call made to him by one of our correspondents. He had yet to reply a text message sent to him as of press time on Monday.
Calls to the telephone of the Vice-Chairman, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, did not connect.
The Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, who is leader of the All Progressives Congress Caucus, also could not be reached as calls made to his telephone line rang out. He had yet to reply to one of our correspondents’ enquiry as of the time this report was filed.
Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party Caucus, Senator Godswill Akpabio, had recently resigned as Minority Leader.
At the House of Representatives, the telephone of the spokesman, Abdulrazak Namdas, indicated that it had been switched off.
While the Special Adviser to the Speaker on Media, Turaki Hassan, asked one of our correspondents to send his enquiry through a text message as he was on a trip, he neither replied it nor picked subsequent calls made to him.
Also, while telephone calls to the Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, did not connect, the line of the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, indicated that it had been switched off. Both of them had yet to reply the text message sent to them as of press time.
Efforts to get key officials of the two chambers of the National Assembly to speak on the matter proved abortive.
When contacted, the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, said he could not confirm if his boss, Saraki, had received the letter.
For further comments, Olaniyonu referred one of our correspondents to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi-Abdullahi; and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Suleiman Nazif, who sponsored the bill and who was Chairman of the Senate and House of Representatives’ Joint Committee on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.
Nazif could not be reached for comments as calls made to his telephone did not connect.
The spokesperson for the Senate could not be reached to react to the assent withdrawal.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi-Abdullahi, rejected a call made to him by one of our correspondents. He had yet to reply a text message sent to him as of press time on Monday.
Calls to the telephone of the Vice-Chairman, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, did not connect.
The Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, who is leader of the All Progressives Congress Caucus, also could not be reached as calls made to his telephone line rang out. He had yet to reply to one of our correspondents’ enquiry as of the time this report was filed.
Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party Caucus, Senator Godswill Akpabio, had recently resigned as Minority Leader.
At the House of Representatives, the telephone of the spokesman, Abdulrazak Namdas, indicated that it had been switched off.
While the Special Adviser to the Speaker on Media, Turaki Hassan, asked one of our correspondents to send his enquiry through a text message as he was on a trip, he neither replied it nor picked subsequent calls made to him.
Also, while telephone calls to the Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, did not connect, the line of the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, indicated that it had been switched off. Both of them had yet to reply the text message sent to them as of press time.
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