Nigeria: 2019 - Senate in Rowdy Session

15 February 2018

Barely one year to the 2019 general election in the country, the peace and stability in the Senate was put on edge yesterday 10 Senators staged a walkout to protest the reschedule of the election timetable. The lawmakers told journalists after walking out of the Red Chamber that 59 of them are opposed to the change of sequence in the conduct of the presidential, National Assembly and gubernatorial elections earlier released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and are set to move against it.

The two chambers of the National Assembly had on Tuesday perfected the change of sequence in the conduct of the general election INEC from what INEC had scheduled it to be.This followed the adoption of a rescheduled serial arrangement as reordered by the National Assembly conference committee on the Electoral Act (amendment) Bill. But plenary at the upper chamber turned into a rowdy session yesterday when the chairman of Senate committee on INEC, Senator Suleiman Nazif, presented the conference committee report on Electoral Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill, 2018.

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