{"id":82025,"date":"2026-01-22T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82025"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:07:38","slug":"2027-atiku-faults-electoral-act-2022-calls-for-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/22\/2027-atiku-faults-electoral-act-2022-calls-for-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Atiku Faults Electoral Act 2022, Calls for Amendments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the Electoral Act 2022, describing its loopholes as a threat to the credibility of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his verified X (formerly Twitter) handle on Thursday, Atiku said the flaws in the Act contributed to irregularities during the 2023 general elections, making it difficult for petitioners to successfully prosecute electoral cases.<\/p>\n<p>He called for the urgent amendment of the law to restore public confidence in Nigeria\u2019s electoral process, warning that failure to act could undermine future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku also criticised what he described as the Senate\u2019s slow pace in handling the proposed amendments, cautioning that prolonged delays could erode public trust in democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing a report by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), he said the urgency with which the National Assembly treats the amendment bill would determine the credibility of the 2027 polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that the Senate finalises the amendments and ensures the updated law governs the conduct of the 2027 elections. Anything short of this is a deliberate attempt to rig the election long before the ballots are cast,\u201d Atiku said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the Electoral Act 2022, describing its loopholes as a threat to the credibility of the 2027 general elections. In a post on his verified X (formerly Twitter) handle on Thursday, Atiku said the flaws in the Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inec","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82025","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=82025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82027,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82025\/revisions\/82027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}