AHEAD of its June 11 inauguration, there has been so much noise about the mode of electing presiding officers of the ninth National Assembly. Some stakeholders canvass adoption of the secret ballot system while some others favour open ballot. Both have given reasons for their respective stance. Secret ballot advocates want confidentiality so that members can freely cast their votes without fear of victimisation by the superintending machinery of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC.
The agitation for the circumvention of the extant standing orders of the National Assembly, which provides secret ballot as the mode of electing presiding officers, speaks to the much fundamental malaise afflicting our body-politic: the proclivity to violating rules and regulations and the impunity of scoffing the ramifications of the breach. The system is sadly subordinated to individuals’ whims or caprices.
Instead of circumventing the rules, steps should be taken by the National Assembly to amend the rules in accordance with popular aspirations. Usually, every session of the National Assembly has the liberty to do that. That was the reason the seventh session of the Senate purportedly amended the standing orders that the former Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Salisu Maikasuwa, used to inaugurate the eighth session.
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