Nigeria: CSOs Fault Malami's Claims, Say Direct Primaries Won't Gulp N10 Billion

29 December 2021

A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) has countered the claims of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami that direct primaries proposed in the contentious Electoral Act would gulp about N500bn.

Malami, in a phone-in programme on Radio Kano reportedly said President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to the Electoral Act Amendment over the huge amount the proposed direct primaries would cost the nation, apart from other reasons.

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