{"id":2309,"date":"2022-03-02T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:07:20","slug":"nigerias-senate-rejects-diaspora-vote-special-seats-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2309\/nigerias-senate-rejects-diaspora-vote-special-seats-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria’s Senate rejects diaspora vote, special seats for women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Voters in Africa’s most populous nation will go to the polls to elect a new president and parliament in February 2023. Hopes that Nigeria’s diaspora would take part were dashed when only 29 senators out of the 92 present supported the provision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For a constitutional bill to pass, it requires the support of at least two-thirds of the 109-member senate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nigeria’s diaspora population was estimated at 1.7 million as of 2020 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another provision to create special seats for women in the National and State Assemblies was rejected by a majority of senators. Aisha Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, had supported the bill. President Buhari is set to step down after two terms next year.<\/p>\n

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Elections in Nigeria<\/a> are an indicator of how men dominate politics in the country of 200 million people. During the last election in 2019, 47% of registered voters were women but they occupy only 6.5% of national assembly seats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nigeria has never elected a woman president or state governor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Senate, however, passed a bill to empower the National and State Assemblies to summon the President and state governors to answer questions on national security and other issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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