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The Buhari-led government is not directly responsible for the insecurity in the country, Kebbi senator, Bala Na’Allah, has said.
It is for this reason, he said, that every responsible Nigerian should assist the federal government in its fight against the menace.
The lawmaker made the statement shortly after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Sunday.
He told journalists that he was on a “routine visit” to the president to discuss some issues of national importance.
His visit to the president comes days after the Senate, in a four-hour meeting,
discussed insecurityin Nigeria with security chiefs.
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Speaking with journalists after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock villa on Sunday, Na’Allah said the amendment will give the country a free and fair electoral process.
The senator said every Nigerian should be interested in a law that will ensure the conduct of credible elections.
“We have finished our public hearing; we have taken input. There are certain things that no matter how you try to be accommodative enough, they are practically impossible,” he said.
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“Those ones that guarantee a free and fair electoral process have been taken into account and I’m very sure we will give Nigerians an electoral act that they will be very proud of.
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Published 9 May 2021
The Senator representing Kebbi South, Bala Na’Allah, has urged Nigerians to put pressure on their representatives in the National Assembly to pass the amendments to the Electoral Act.
He said federal lawmakers must be made to act patriotically and place the nation above their parties’ interest on the matter.
Na’Allah, a member of the Senate Committee on Electoral Matters, said this in an interview with State House Correspondents after a meeting he had with the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday.
The senator said a public hearing had been held on the document and lawmakers must now do what is right.