Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, of deliberately stalling critical amendments to the Electoral Act 2022, warning that such inaction could compromise the credibility of the 2027 general elections.
Calling out the Executive arm of the Nigerian G0vernment on X, Atiku described loopholes in the 2022 Electoral Act as a major setback to the conduct of the 2023 elections, arguing that the gaps in the law enabled widespread electoral malpractice and made it nearly impossible for aggrieved candidates to successfully prosecute election petitions in court.
He stressed that correcting the failures of the 2023 polls requires an urgent review of the legal framework governing elections, insisting that the Electoral Act must be strengthened ahead of 2027 to prevent a repeat of what he described as “brazen rigging.”
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Atiku further faulted the Senate for what he termed a lack of legislative responsibility, citing a recent investigative report by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) as an indictment of the upper chamber’s handling of the proposed amendments.
According to him, the credibility of the 2027 elections depends largely on how urgently the Senate concludes work on the Electoral Act amendments and ensures that the revised law is in force before the next polls.
“Anything short of this,” Atiku warned, “amounts to a deliberate attempt to rig the election long before the ballots are cast.”
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