Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has said there is no alteration in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill as being speculated in some quarters.
Gbajabiamila stated this while reacting to a point on matters of privilege by Rep Ugouna Ozurigbo (APC-Imo) at Tuesday’s plenary in Abuja.
Ozurigbo had claimed that he received information that the House Committee on Electoral Matters, chaired by Rep Aisha Duku (APC-Gombe) had altered the bill.
“A number of Nigerians, particularly in my constituency, have been calling me to express their concerns about possible alteration to the electoral bill.
“I am a member of the committee, I don’t know the information going around where they said that we carefully amended Section 50 sub-section 2 of the Electoral Bill.
“That the agreed electronically transmitted election results have been changed to become manually transmitted,” he said
The Speaker, however, said that the speculation was unfounded.
“I really don’t want to speak on a report that has not yet been submitted to the House,” he said.
