Na'abba goofed when he allowed the clause to be smuggled into the Electoral Act writes Abubakar Jika.
LOOKING at the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling on local polls which showed the National Assembly as the prime loser and the state governors as the main beneficiaries one is inclined to believe that it was the defining line in this democracy. It is obvious that a faction of the National Assembly principally the relative youths in the House of Representatives may be in for a political trashing of their lives.
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