Sharing a similar view, Mr Kamil Oyedele, another law maker, said 2010 Electoral Act was still valid.

Meanwhile, Mr Adegboyega Adebayo, the state Coordinator of Civil Progress Group (CPG), expressed the fear that democracy might not be sustainable with the heavy deployment of security personnel during elections.

In Oyo State, Alhaji Nasir Ayilara, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), said in Ibadan that the polls would be better than the 2011 edition adjudged to be free and fair by international observers and monitors.

“We have very high hope that the 2015 general elections will be better than that of the 2011. You know 2011 was a departure from previous ones,” he said.

The REC said INEC had been tackling the challenges facing the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) distribution and Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) in line with international standards.

“The major threat to the conduct of 2015 elections is insecurity as hoodlums and thugs may want to perpetrate violence,” he said.

Commenting on INEC activities towards the elections, a Kaduna-based frontline politician, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, said the electoral body was not ready.

Musa said in Kaduna that the absence of an amended law would negate the 2015 election.

According to him, the election time table released by the commission will have very little binding effect since there is no law guiding the electoral process.

“INEC is not prepared for the 2015 election; we are going to have a mess; we are going to have imperfect election, bad election and it will be called elections, and winners will be allowed, which means there will be no legitimacy,” he said.

He said NASS granting of INEC request to use military for elections was unconstitutional.

Musa cautioned that ceding such powers to INEC would compromise the neutrality expected of the commission and portray it as “part and parcel of the ringing system”.

He said the commission did not require a special tribunal to prosecute offenders if it was serious in doing so based on existing laws.

The former governor also spoke on the operations of civil society organisations in the country, saying they had failed woefully in the discharge of their responsibilities.