Key amendments designed to ground the conduct of future Nigerian elections in transparency and accountability seem doomed for the garbage bin as early as next Thursday when the National Assembly sits to review and pass the Electoral Bill that caucus leaders of Senate are currently fine-tuning in Abuja.

If the National Assembly has its way and passes the legislation, the bill will then be sent to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent to become law.

And unless a last-minute change is done, a new Electoral Amendment bill will be passed, but hopes of key electoral reforms in subsequent elections will be lost.

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