{"id":81981,"date":"2026-01-21T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81981"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:54:28","slug":"senate-to-fast-track-new-electoral-law-ubani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/21\/senate-to-fast-track-new-electoral-law-ubani\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to Fast-Track New Electoral Law \u2013Ubani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate will prioritise and pass a new electoral law without delay, Dr. Monday Ubani (SAN), Special Adviser to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has said.<br \/>\nUbani told journalists on Monday that lawmakers are eager to conclude work on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill ahead of the 2027 general elections, adding that the Senate leadership will act swiftly once plenary resumes.<\/p>\n<p>His assurance follows calls by civil society groups and other stakeholders urging the National Assembly to expedite the bill before key electoral timelines, including the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s notice of election.<\/p>\n<p>Ubani noted that the House of Representatives has already passed its version of the bill, stressing that the Senate will immediately consider it for harmonisation and transmission to President Bola Tinubu for assent.<\/p>\n<p>He added that timely passage of the law is crucial to provide clarity and certainty for all electoral stakeholders ahead of the next polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Nigerian Senate will prioritise and pass a new electoral law without delay, Dr. Monday Ubani (SAN), Special Adviser to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has said. Ubani told journalists on Monday that lawmakers are eager to conclude work on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill ahead of the 2027 general elections, adding that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81983,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81981\/revisions\/81983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}