President Bola Tinubu is expected to sign the amended Electoral Act into law this month, according to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

Akpabio said this on Tuesday 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,” the Senate president told the lawmakers. “So I wish you a worthy deliberation with your colleagues.”