{"id":285347,"date":"2020-11-24T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=285347"},"modified":"2020-11-25T00:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:11:44","slug":"electoral-amendment-bill-scales-second-reading-in-house-of-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=285347","title":{"rendered":"Electoral amendment bill scales second reading in House of Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The House of Representatives has passed through second reading a bill to amend the electoral act.<br \/>\nThe bill sponsored by Aisha Dukku was debated by the House and passed for a second reading.<br \/>\nLeading the debate on the bill, Dukku who is the Chairman of the House Committee on Electoral Matters said the existing Act is obsolete.<br \/>\n\u201cElectoral laws appear to be out-dated and ill-equipped to adequately address the concerns that the very foundation of our democracy calls for. I hereby urge you all to support this Bill to further strengthen our electoral legal framework and our electoral system for the development of our democracy.\u201d<br \/>\nDuring the debate, expenses on elections were the most contentious. The bill is proposing a new limit on election financing.<br \/>\nThe bill is seeking to amend section 91 of the act by increasing the limit candidates can spend on elections.<br \/>\n\u201cThe maximum election expenses to be incurred by a candidate at a presidential election shall not exceed N5,000,000,000.00.<br \/>\n\u201cThe maximum amount of election expenses to be incurred by a candidate in respect of governorship election shall not exceed N1,000,000,000.00.<br \/>\n\u201cThe maximum amount of election expenses to be incurred by a Candidate in respect of Senatorial and House of Representatives seat shall not exceed N100,000,000.00 and N70,000,000.00 respectively.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the case of state Assembly election, the maximum amount of election expenses to be incurred by a candidate shall not exceed N 30,000,000.00.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the case of a chairmanship election to an Area Council, the maximum amount of election expenses to be incurred by a candidate shall not exceed N30,000,000.00.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the case of Councillorship election to an Area Council, the maximum amount of election expenses to be incurred by a candidate shall not exceed N5,000,000.00.\u201d<br \/>\nIn his contribution, the Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu said his N600,000 monthly salary cannot support N70million limit for election into the House of Representatives.<br \/>\nWhen the bill was put to question, the \u201cayes\u201d had it.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has passed through second reading a bill to amend the electoral act. The bill sponsored by Aisha Dukku was debated by the House and passed for a second reading. Leading the debate on the bill, Dukku who is the Chairman of the House Committee on Electoral Matters said the existing Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[2658,11029],"class_list":["post-285347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-a","tag-house-of-representative"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/285348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}