 The Center for Democracy and Development, the CDD, has called on the National Assembly to immediately remove the provisions on direct primaries as raised by President Muhammad Ibrahim. CDD's director, Idiat Hassan, said the call became imperative against the backdrop of President Muhammad Ibrahim's decision to decline Assad to the electoral bill 2021. Hassan also urged the National Assembly to thereafter represent the bill to the president for his Hassan. He said that the National Assembly should redeem the situation to strengthen Nigeria's democracy.