Atiku said the recommendations that he has put forth to the National Assembly for amendments in the country’s election laws are areas where there are pitfalls in the subsisting laws regulating elections in Nigeria.
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He also wants the amendment of Section 135 of the document to read “subject to the provisions of the subsection , the President shall vacate his office at the expiration of a period of Six Years commencing from the date.”Atiku’s proposals come about four months after some members of the House of Representatives proposed a bill to introduce rotation of the presidency between the North and the South as well as the creation of a second vice president.
He ran for president in 2007 on the ticket of the defunct Action Congress but lost to late President Umaru Yar’Adua. Atiku’s proposals, addressed to the Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Barau Jibrin, and dated 30th August 2024, contains recommendations that border on themes like procedures for the educational qualification of candidate in elections, internal democracy in political parties and rotation of presidential position among the six geo-political zones of the country.
3. Reducing the tendencies of political parties to breach the constitution, electoral act, rules and guidelines made thereunder, and the constitution of the political party
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