NASS will override Buhari on Electoral Act –Turaki

He said it was surprising that Buhari had not signed into law the electoral Act. Turaki spoke on Thursday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the campaign office of a Kwara State governorship aspirant on the PDP platform, Prof Sulaiman Abubakar. Turaki said, “What is happening now is what has been happening with the APC-led Federal Government. Something that ordinarily should be a simple law-making process is being complicated unnecessarily. “The President has the power upon the passing of a bill to assent to it or refuse to assent to it. But in this particular situation, the FG had gone to court and they lost and after losing, they are now saying they are going to veto it. “Thank God, the constitution has made provision to override and they are going to use it.” He advised the APC-led Federal Government to always place national interest above individual interest. According to him, if a candidate is popular, there is no way the sequence of elections timetable can affect his electoral fortune. He advised PDP members to be united ahead of the 2019 elections. He warned that the APC and Buhari could win the 2019 presidential election if individual interests of PDP members were not subordinated to the overall national interest. He said the PDP had learnt its lesson and would not do anything to jeopardise its chances of winning next year’s presidential election.]]>