The Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory, FCT,
Ireti Kingibe, says every aspect of the Electoral Act document has been turned
upside down.
Kingibe made this known on Monday during an interview on
Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’.
The lawmaker said she was on the Committee for Electoral
Reforms, noting that most items in the Act were not in the original one.
She said, “What they presented was not in the original one.
I spoke to somebody about it. I said, I can show you the documents I have.
“In what election have we ever conducted, where INEC ballot
papers did not have security measures that you can bring any type of ballot
paper vote with it. It’s never happened.
“And so when somebody was mentioning to me, I said no, I
didn’t see that part. It couldn’t have been there.
“I was on the committee for the electoral reforms. Two years
we worked on a document that was acceptable, and we did bi-camera sitting.
“So it was not just the Senate; the Senate and the House of
Representatives sat, as well as with INEC and some CSOs and came up with a
document that we felt would give us free and fair election. We brought it and
every aspect of it was turned upside down.”
By
TheTimes Nigeria
