Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu (APC-Imo North) has claimed that the move by lawmakers to rejig the 2019 election timetable was targeted at President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking to newsmen on Sunday the lawmaker insisted that the action violated the provision of the Nigerian Constitution which only empowered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to take such decision.
Uwajumogu said: “I have flipped through the Hansards of the 1960 parliament, the Second Republic and the Third Republic National Assembly Hansards, and couldn’t locate where they ever inserted the sequence of elections in their Electoral Act. I stand to be corrected.
“There may be different reasons, but be rest assured that when Mr. President vetoes the bill, majority of us will support the veto.
“It is becoming clear by the day, that wittingly or unwittingly, their target is Mr. President, and many of our colleagues will realise their mistake and change their mind.
“Be rest assured that they can’t garner the proverbial two-thirds majority in both chambers.
“Let me ask you, what do I tell my constituency? That I am voting against President Muhammadu Buhari who is re-constructing Enugu-Okigwe-Umuahia-Aba-Port Harcourt, Enugu-Onitsha, Second Niger Bridge, Aba-Calabar, dualisation of Owerri-Aba highway, among other federal roads; roads abandoned for over two decades?”
