He has urged Nigerians who were not comfortable with certain clauses in the ongoing amendment, to take their complaints to their representatives, for consideration before the passage of bill.
“It is very important that those who feel very strongly about any amendment that they think should be effected in the Electoral Act should contact or talk to their members of House of Representatives as well as distinguished Senators.
“I want to state categorically clear here that presiding officers are not the ones to determine what is coming or what is not.
He assured the PCC of the national assembly’s support towards tackling its challenges.
“We are making efforts to overcoming the challenges facing the commission which is largely funding,” he said.
Speaker House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila said that the commission was a product of necessity due to human rights abuses, societal victimisation, high headedness and practices of maladministration.
“Such ugly practices are been noticed in Nigerian workplaces and this promoted the birth of the commission in 1975 and its metamorphosis into a statutory vehicle in 2004.
“The main purpose of bringing the PCC on board was to curtail all forms of injustices in public administration in Nigeria,”Gbajabiamila said.
He urged the commissioners to bring to play, all the necessary ingredients needed in public administration for workers protection, for the benefits of Nigerians and residents of Nigeria irrespective of ethnicity or religious inclinations.
Mr Amos Ojo, National Assembly, clerk, urged the commissioners to be ambassadors of Nigerian Conscience and do their job with diligence.
“This is to ensure that those who had been cruelly rusticated through administrative wickedness are able to access justice across the country,” he said.