9th National Assembly: PDP schemes for secret voting to gain control vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Although elections into the Senate presidency and the speakership of the House of Representatives are due early in June, APC sources said the two camps are preparing for the day, claiming that PDP “is already laying political landmines in the path of APC – the latter clinched majority of seats in the last elections – in order to have the legislative gavel by proxy.”
In implementing the plan, some APC senators-elect, who double as foot soldiers for Senator Ahmad Lawan claimed that from their field experience and pronouncements of some PDP chieftains, members of the opposition, with a large war chest, allegedly made available by those being investigated by anti-corruption agencies, are ready to infiltrate National Assembly bureaucracy to perfect their plan.
“Remember that secret voting provision was smuggled into the Rule Book used for the 2015 elections despite our protest because secret voting is alien to parliamentary practices. When it comes to voting in parliaments worldwide, open voting is used”, a senator-elect said. “What happened in the 2015 inauguration will not repeat itself because we shall all be present during this year’s inauguration and we shall not allow the controversial Rule Book to be used. We will insist on open voting as practised in all parliaments in the world and the National Assembly bureaucracy has already been put on notice”.
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