The Nigerian Senate has agreed with the House of Representatives committees on electoral matters on the amended sequence of 2019 General Elections.
TheNewsGuru reports the House had amended the Electoral Act to reorder the 2019 general elections after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had released time-table for the elections.
The amendment was made at the Committee of the whole House, presided by the Deputy Speaker, Mr Yussuff Lasun.
The lawmakers amended the Act while considering the report of the House Committee on Electoral Matters which proposed amendment of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).
In the time-table released by INEC, Presidential and National Assembly elections were to hold first, while governorship and state assembly would follow.
The House amended section 25 of the Principal Act and substituted it with a new section 25 (1).
According to the section, the elections shall be held in the following order: (a) National Assembly election (b) State Houses of Assembly and Governorship elections (c) Presidential election.
Both chambers of the National Assembly agreed to the reordered sequence at a conference committee meeting on amendment of the 2010 electoral act chaired by Senator Suleiman Nazif and Honourable Edward Pwajok which held immediately after Tuesday’s plenary.
The amendment will allow the 2019 general elections to begin first with National Assembly, followed by Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections with the presidential election coming last.