President Tinubu Signs Amended Electoral Act Into Law

President Tinubu Signs Amended Electoral Act Into Law

President Tinubu Signs Amended Electoral Act Into Law

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the 2026 Electoral Act into law. The President signed the new amendment to the Electoral Act at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, witnessed the occasion.

On Tuesday, the Senate and House of Representatives harmonized the electoral amidst opposition from minority lawmakers.

Earlier, Akpabio had said President Tinubu was expected to sign the amended Electoral Act into law this month.

Akpabio said this during an emergency plenary session where the lawmakers constituted a committee to harmonise its version of the bill with the one passed by the House of Representatives amid the backlash triggered by some amendments to the Act.

“I believe that if you are able to conclude within this, in the next few days or one week, the President should be able to sign this amended Electoral Bill into an Act of Parliament within this month of February. So I wish you a worthy deliberation with your colleagues,” he had said