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Protests Rock Senate as Senators, Others Cry Over Clerk’s Insistence on Secret Ballot

There is mild drama at the Senate at present as Senators engage the clerk of the house  following a decision to adopt the secret ballot system for the election of presiding officers.

The uproar started after the Clerk of the Senate, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, announced that the Senate will use the 2015 standing order.

The 2015 order favours secret ballot.

However, an Abuja High Court on Monday issued a judgement that the election should be by open ballot in tandem with provisions of the 2011 standing order.

The uproar is still raging as at the time of filing this report

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