Bill to Provide Voting Rights to Nigerians in Diaspora Passes Second Reading
A bill to provide constitutional voting rights to Nigerians in diaspora has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives.
The Bill sponsored by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas and Representative Sadiq Ango seeks to alter relevant sections of the Constitution to allow Nigerians residing outside the country to vote during Nigerian elections without the rigours and logistics challenge of traveling to Nigeria to exercise their voting rights.
In other resolutions, the House called for urgent construction of the abandoned Odukpani-Itu Road in the South South geopolitical zone
