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NIGERIAN SENATE REJECTS DIASPORA VOTE, SPECIAL SEATS FOR WOMEN

NIGERIA’S Senate 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. 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.

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