National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) at the weekend threatened to take federal lawmakers to court if they amend parts of the electoral law to make themselves automatic members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of political parties.
Describing it as a new manifestation of efforts by lawmakers to make laws in their interest rather than in the national interest, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, said it was becoming clear that, as far as the dominant PDP members of the National Assembly are concerned, the interest of their party is the same as the interest of the nation.
The party however called on other political parties to mount a legal challenge against what it tagged, “the obnoxious, self-serving, greedy and democracy-killing proposed insertion into the Electoral Act 2010.” The party also called on labour, civil society organizations and political parties to march on the National Assembly “to ensure such anti-democratic law is not passed.” Mr Mohammed described the ongoing amendment effort as the most expensive and anti people ever in Nigeria’s history, saying it is time to stop federal lawmakers from ruining the democracy that millions of Nigerians fought to entrench.
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