…Commences Repeal of Electoral Law
Anambra State House of Assembly on Tuesday during plenary, considered the committee report on the bill for a law to establish the Anambra State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission. After consideration of the report, the bill was read for the third and final time and thereafter passed into law. Similarly, the Assembly also considered the committee report on the Anambra State Market Safety Bill, 2024, and the bill was passed into law after due consideration. Both bills are now awaiting the governor’s signature before they take the full force of the law.
Importantly, the Anambra State House of Assembly also read for the first and second time a bill for a law to ‘establish the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission to provide for the Conduct of Elections to the Local Governments and Connected Purposes’. This bill was sent to the House Committee on Judiciary and is expected to receive accelerated consideration and passage. This bill is an executive bill introduced to the House of Assembly by the Executive arm headed by Governor Soludo. Upon consideration of this 2024 Anambra State Electoral Bill, the Anambra State Electoral Law 2007 would stand repealed.
Recently, there have been sustained calls on the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to conduct local government elections and stop the use of transition committees across the twenty-one local government areas of the state. Even more, the federal government of Nigeria under President Tinubu has shown clear interest in the manner state governors manage local governments, especially in connection to the non-conduct of local government elections by various states. In Anambra for instance, it is over ten years since the last local government was conducted in the state.
Other things being equal, the Anambra State Electoral 2024 might be passed into law within the week and this gives a hint that the Anambra State government might be gearing up towards conducting local government elections sooner than later.
Ebuka graduated with a second-class upper-division degree in Political Science from the University of Calabar in Nigeria. He furthered his education by obtaining a Master's Degree in Political Science with a specialization in Government and Development Studies from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Nigeria. His academic background and professional experience have equipped him with a deep understanding of political dynamics and governance issues.
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