Senators at war over electoral act amendment

The Senate was sharply divided yesterday on the modalities for the amendment of the Electoral Act 2010, which encapsulates the procedures for elections and highlights operational procedures of the Independent National Electoral Commission[INEC]

The upper Chamber penultimate week suspended the consideration of the amendment bill following fierce disagreement on the floor on who should assume the candidature of a party whose candidate dies in the middle of an election. The irreconcilable disagreement, compelled the president of the senate Dr. Bukola Saraki to direct that the bill be sent back to the committee on INEC for further legislative work.

However, the issue of the bill came up again, during a closed-door session that lasted for over one and half hours, where senators shamelessly engaged each other in a shouting match while trying to deliberate on the bill. Sources at the session said that the discussions were a bit heated on two main issues in the Electoral Act.

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