The Coalition of United Political Parties on Friday faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’ s decision to again withhold assent to the 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill.

The coalition in a statement by its first national spokesperson , Imo Ugochinyere, said Buhari ’s latest action portrayed him as a jittery President who is afraid of electoral defeat and yet desperate to cling on to power.

It said a President who knew that he did not perform should not be surprised and jittery that all security reports indicated that he would suffer electoral defeat in the hands of the coalition’ s consensus candidate , Alhaji Atiku Abubakar .

The statement read, “ President Buhari has expectedly failed again to take advantage of the rare opportunity of the Electoral Amendment Bill to write his name in gold as the President that signed the laws that guaranteed electoral credibility in Nigeria.

“ But yet again, as usual of him , he failed to rise to the occasion, being blinded by ambition and the love of the perks of office .

“ It is an act of clear desperation that the President had shown. For each of the four times the Electoral Amendment Bill was presented to him for assent, he waited until the last day of his constitutionally allowed 30 days .

“ Nigerians should also be reminded that throughout the amendment process, President Buhari never made any suggestions or proposals to the National Assembly for the improvement of our electoral process but kept delaying and indulging in unnecessary hide- and- seek until this last minute .

“ Rather, the President is willing to allow Nigeria witness her most violent elections when he had the opportunity to sign the law which guarantees the freest and most credible elections in Nigeria’ s history . ”

Ugochinyere claimed that APC ’ s plan is how to steal the people ’s mandate to perpetuate the present government in power.

To checkmate the move, he said the opposition would in the coming days unveil a strategy called “ Opposition Code 20. ”

He adds, “ This Code is as enshrined in Section 20 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act which allows citizens to perform policing duties of arrest .

“ The section provides that ‘ a private person may arrest a suspect in Nigeria who in his presence commits an offence or whom he reasonably suspects of having committed an offence for which the Police is entitled to arrest without a warrant. ’

“ This code is the effective counter -measure to the stealing and rigging plot of the APC and President Buhari .

“ Nigerians have had enough of the Buhari misfortune and are resolved on consigning it to history where generations shall be taught on the kind of persons not to be elected President in any country ever again.

“ President Buhari by all indications is willing to plunge Nigeria into electoral crisis worse than those that twice directly led to the collapse of democracy after the 1963 and 1983 general elections. ”

Source: https://punchng.com/buharis-rejection-of-electoral-bill-an-act-of-desperation-cupp/

If the passage into law is very important, PDP should direct Saraki and Dogara to mobilise two third majority of the house to veto Buhari.

I disagree with you CUPP.

+1 for Big Bubu

R u sure he's the one in control of it with what the wife said ... I doubt if he's the one in control maybe they told him what to do and what to say

4th to comment ... Am coming back ...

He has no valid reason for this refusal

NIGERIA : The land of generals without war, professors without discovery, politicians without ideology, wealth without prosperity, religion without piety, leaders without vision, the oppressed without worries, courts without justice, criminals without fears, history without glory, heroes without honor, schools without learning, artists without taste, intellectuals without thought, terrorists without identity, appointees without life, hunger without famine, change without progress, next level without foundation, democracy without citizens, unity without love, heroes without sacrifice, policies without plans, crime without culprits, saints without humility, integrity without performance, wars without enemies, billionaires without business, youth without dreams, elders without wisdom

I weep for Nigeria!!

Onpe!

BUHARI would have sign but Jubril signature is different

APC why?

ok..

Can they please educate us by telling us what is in this new electoral act that is not in the existing one which guarantees a better and more credible electoral process?

It is not enough to just accuse him of desperation without laying the facts.

The two people controlling this government really want to violently rig this elections.

How would a country go into an election without any electoral process to guide it. So Buhari just want elections run anyhow to his favor?.. I pity your generations, all of you supporting Buhari.


PS.. I support no party or affiliated to any.. Nigerians use your brains...

What's in the Bill?

Can anyone here please summarise? Thanks

Jothamthompson:
BUHARI would have sign but Jubril signature is different

Sense no go kee u

These are the reasons:

two things are involved.
1. That document has to be translated to Arabic so that he can understand it well
2. Jubril can't forge Buhari's signature

They should translate it to Arabic so he will understand

hokafor:
They should translate it to Arabic so he will understand

Shut up . Ipob jew

We are in for a tough time....evidently he wants to continue to rule by crook or hook.....

Ok

Baba ...please let peace rain come 2019, just pack ur load and go back to daura ... Ur cattles are missing you .

CUPP should shut up.

Buhari had valid reasons.

Its now clear that PDP had a plan with this bill which is why they are desperate

Nothing for una lootocrats. Buhari isn't that Otuoke Drunk

Buhari was not the one that rejected it but the two man were the one that do it back to sender

Is not bubu that rejected the bill ,is the two men that hijacked his administration ！

What is cupp is it a name of a person or animal, thing?abegi I'm moving towards next level jare .