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Seventh Assembly Did Not Amend Standing Rules – Enang

A former Federal Lawmaker in the Seventh Assembly, Senator Ita Enang says at no time did the Seventh Assembly amend its standing rules.

Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Senator Enang, who chaired the Committee on Rules and Business in the Seventh Assembly, discredited reports that the Senate standing rules ended with the Assembly.

The Senate has been tangled in controversy as federal lawmakers in the Unity Forum wrote a petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, alleging that some sections of the 2015 Senate rules had been forged by certain Senators from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The contention was that the Senate standing rules for 2015 was secretly amended to replace the use of open ballot system with secret ballot system in the election of the principal officers in the Senate.

Another amendment to the Senate standing rules which is sure to further deepen the crises is a new section which prescribes equal committee chairmanship positions for each of the six geopolitical zones.

Adeyiga Abisoye

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