Details emerging from the National Assembly indicated at the weekend that a myriad of reasons instigated the Senators to reject the amendments proposed
by President Goodluck Jonathan to the 2010 Electoral Act.
The most contentious of the amendments was the push to make presidential aides and aides of governors automatic delegates to the national conventions of the political parties.
Sources in the Senate however confirmed to the Sunday Tribune that while the lawmakers were not opposed to the idea of granting the request for President Jonathan, many of them were afraid that the governors could use the same clause to knock out a number of senators and members of the House of Representatives.
One of the unstated reasons for the rejection of the bill according to a source had to do with the failure of the Jonathan camp to manage the legislature in a deliberate manner since his inception as president.
A top member of the National Assembly said that the usual consultations between the National Assembly and the Presidency had stopped in the last five months.
“During the period of President Olusegun Obasanjo, we used to meet every week. The late President Umaru Yar’Adua continued with the tradition. Later, he changed it to fortnightly before his sickness became worse. I have not heard of any such meeting of minds in recent months,” a source said.
The source added that the lawmakers, being the active participants in the lawmaking process have to know the underlining effects of every bill before it could be passed into law.
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