The African Democratic Congress (ADC), yesterday, said President Bola Tinubu’s hasty assent to the new electoral law is tantamount to signing a death warrant against credible polls in the country.
The ADC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated that the haste with which the President assented to the electoral law, was part of the All Progressives Congress (APC) plot to allegedly rig the 2027 general election.
President Tinubu, on Wednesday, signed the new electoral law, 24 hours after it was passed by the National Assembly, amid protests over some sections of the new legislation.
The civil society, as well as key opposition figures, had protested the non-inclusion of mandatory electronic transmission of election results in the new electoral law.
The ADC said it is sad that at a time when Nigerians across party lines were demanding for more accountability in the electoral system, the President hurriedly signed the new electoral law, which failed to improve citizens confidence in the electoral process.”
