They accused Mr Akpabio of removing the electronic transmission clause from the Senate’s electoral bill.
Some Nigerians have expressed divergent opinions on the performance of President Muhammad Buhari’s administration in the last eight years.
The bishops said that the 2023 general elections must be a hitch-free process.
“I don’t understand the anxiety and the propaganda of trying to force the president or blackmail the president signing the electoral act.”
The latest confirmation runs foul of an earlier assurance by the president’s spokesman Femi Adesina that the document will be signed in a “matter of hours.”
