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Gov Otu Assents To Amended C’River Electoral Law

Posted on September 19, 2024 By Admin No Comments on Gov Otu Assents To Amended C’River Electoral Law
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Otu, signing the bill into law.

Governor Bassey Otu has assented to the amended Cross River Electoral Law passed by the State House of Assembly.

The amendment by House of Assembly was necessitated by the Supreme Court’s verdict granting autonomy to local government councils as well as ensuring that states of the federation to ensure local administrations are headed by elected officials in accordance with the constitution.

Signing the amended Law, Otu stated: “Let me thank Mr. Speaker and members of the House of Assembly, and of course, our own Electoral Commission for making sure that we have an up-to-date act that is ready to put the third tier of government into office.”

“The local government is very important. That is the government that is closer to the people than any other government that we have in the Federation. I want to appreciate the fact that you’ve done a good job and I know that Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission, CROSIEC, as they are going, they are going to announce the date for the election and people will be ready; so that we will follow the rules of the game … we want this particular segment of our government to be active so that the dividends of democracy will trickle right down to the downtrodden and the people who need it most.”

Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Elvert Ayambem told newsmen that “what we have done today is in line with the Supreme Court judgment that was passed ab initio, and the Otu-led government being a proactive one, decided that the third tier government must come up almost immediately.”

“For some time, we have not had the opportunity of having substantive chairmen in their right places of authority. And the governor thought it wise that we need to come up with the conduct of local government election. The House of Assembly, in her wisdom, looked at the CROSIEC laws and realized that there were some grey areas that needed urgent attention. And those grey areas are the areas that have been largely attended to.”

He explained that one of the most cardinal points tackled in the amended law was the review of the tenure of office of chairmen and councillors from three to four years at par with their elected officials at the state and federal levels.

“As the Supreme Court judgment rightly had outlined that the third tier government should enjoy the same status with that of the executive, the status of a governor and the status of a president where they have a tenure of four years in office and not three years at it were. So we looked at it in consonance with the Supreme Court judgment.

The state government, he concluded, will through CROSIEC conduct local government elections before the end of the 2024.

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