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Senate Group Urges IGP To Investigate Fraudulent New Standing Rules Used In "Electing" Saraki

In a letter signed by Sen. Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, its Secretary, the Senate Unity Forum pointed out that the so-called new Standing Orders purports to allow for secret instead of the open ballot system that has been prevalent in all Senate elections as permitted by the extant rules.

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A National Assembly group, the Senate Unity Forum, has called on the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the fraudulent introduction in the Upper House of a 2015 Senate Standing Rules, and to bring to justice those responsible for a fraud it warns has led to the undue political crises and abnormalities in the polity. 

In a letter signed by Sen. Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, its Secretary, the Senate Unity Forum pointed out that the so-called new Standing Orders purports to allow for secret instead of the open ballot system that has been prevalent in all Senate elections as permitted by the extant rules.

“This infraction, among others, arises from the fraudulent production of the rules without an approved consideration by the 7th Senate,” it said. 

The Senate Unity Forum attached to the petition a copy of the “original and authentic” Standing Order of 2011 that was used by the 7th Senate, as well as a copy of the purported amended Standing Orders 2015 which was used by the Clerk to the National Assembly (along with the Clerk of the Senate) in inaugurating the 8th Senate on 9th June, 2015.

It declared:  “At no time was the Standing Orders of the Senate amended during the entire life of the 7th Senate. Neither has the 8th Senate sat for long enough to produce the rules now being circulated and in use.”

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