{"id":66645,"date":"2019-05-14T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=66645"},"modified":"2019-05-14T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:35:10","slug":"much-ado-about-nass-leadership-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/much-ado-about-nass-leadership-election\/","title":{"rendered":"MUCH ADO ABOUT NASS LEADERSHIP ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
By Sufuyan Ojeifo<\/div>\n
\n
\nAhead of its June 11 inauguration, there has been so much noise about
\nthe mode of electing presiding officers of the 9th National Assembly.
\nSome stakeholders canvass adoption of the secret ballot system while
\nsome others favour open ballot. Both have given reasons for their
\nrespective stance.<\/p>\n

Secret ballot advocates want confidentiality so that members can freely
\ncast their votes without fear of victimization by the superintending
\nmachinery of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). Those
\npushing for open ballot want a restraining process that could be used to
\nrein in members of the governing party to vote for its endorsed
\ncandidates.<\/p>\n

Open ballot puts members-elect under intense pressure. It can influence
\nthe election in favour of the governing party\u2019s preferred choices,
\nexcepting where members or some members decide to dare the party and
\ndamn the consequences. Conversely, secret ballot gives members the
\nleeway to engage in real \u2018monkey business\u2019.<\/p>\n

For the APC, the fear of \u2018monkey business,\u2019 now, is the beginning of
\nwisdom. Having been once beaten in the 2015 National Assembly leadership
\nelection when Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara upstaged its anointed
\ncandidates – Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila – for the positions of
\nSenate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives
\nrespectively, circumspection becomes imperative.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the APC\u2019s anointed candidates that were defeated in
\n2015 are the same candidates being promoted by the party to lead the
\nNational Assembly in 2019. The question is: what has changed between
\nthen and now to avert a repeat of the 2015 debacle?\u00a0 It is possible that
\na whole lot has changed. But the attitude of the party leadership
\nsuggests otherwise. The party leadership and the anointed candidates do
\nnot appear surefooted; otherwise, the mode of election should not have
\nmattered, especially where the standing orders of the Federal
\nLegislature are unambiguous on the voting mode.<\/p>\n

The method of clothing leaderships at all levels of government with
\nauthority or legitimacy should not have been problematic had the quest
\nfor power been motivated by altruism. Selflessness is not an exemplar in
\nthe government and governance architecture of our nation. Institutions
\nand processes are always circumvented to satisfy predetermined narrow
\nends.<\/p>\n

The agitation for the circumvention of the extant standing orders of the
\nNational Assembly, which provides secret ballot as the mode of electing
\npresiding officers, speaks to the much fundamental malaise afflicting
\nour body-politic: the proclivity to violating rules and regulations and
\nthe impunity of scoffing the ramifications of the breach.<\/p>\n

The system is sadly subordinated to individuals\u2019 whims or caprices.
\nPretenders to leadership positions egregiously operate the system in
\nservice of their selfish agenda. Otherwise, I ask once more: why,
\nindeed, would some individuals advocate the adoption of open ballot when
\nthe standing orders of both the Senate and the House of Representatives
\nclearly provide for secret ballot?<\/p>\n

The fault is in political elite\u2019s mind-set of deliberately placing
\npersonal interest over collective, national interest. Political
\nleadership and power elite have always manipulated the system in
\ndesperate and selfish bids to appropriate authority and commonwealth in
\nfurtherance of personal gains. This is not solely APC\u2019s problem.
\nRegardless, it is buckling under the weighty pressure of its avowed
\ndetermination to deliver the individuals to whom it had micro-zoned the
\nleadership of the 9th National Assembly, perhaps preparatory to 2023
\npresidential politics.<\/p>\n

For a party that controls the majority in the Federal Legislature,
\nAPC\u2019s gravitas and magisterial \u00e9lan are on the line. Ordinarily, it
\nshould have its way. But the acts of politicians and their desperate
\nquest for power and positions are somewhat shrouded in political
\nstatements that are, at best, apocryphal.\u00a0 I believe stakeholders should
\nnot resort to circumvention of the rules in a bid to push through
\ninterests and endorsements.<\/p>\n

Instead of circumventing the rules, steps should be taken by the
\nNational Assembly to amend the rules in accordance with popular
\naspirations.\u00a0 Usually, every session of the National Assembly has the
\nliberty to do that.\u00a0 That was the reason the 7th Session of the Senate
\npurportedly amended the standing orders that the former Clerk to the
\nNational Assembly (CNA), Salisu Maikasuwa, used to inaugurate the 8th
\nSession.<\/p>\n

The document, tagged: Senate Standing Orders 2015 as amended, comprises
\nthe extant rules regulating the workings of the Senate.\u00a0 It provides for
\nsecret ballot and it has yet to be amended.\u00a0 And as long as it has not
\nbeen amended, it remains the document that will guide the incumbent CNA,
\nMohammed Ataba Sani-Omolori, in the inauguration of the 9th National
\nAssembly.<\/p>\n

The crux of the procedures is that nomination of senators-elect for
\nelection as presiding officers shall be addressed to the CNA.
\nSignificantly, the rule mandates the CNA to take charge and,
\nspecifically, in Order 3(3)(9e) to proceed in this direction, to wit:
\n\u201cwhen two or more senators-elect are nominated and seconded as Senate
\nPresident, the election shall be conducted as follows: (i) by electronic
\nvoting; or (ii) voting by secret ballot which shall\u00a0 be conducted by the
\nClerks-at-the Table using the list of the Senators-elect of the Senate,
\nwho shall each be given a ballot paper to cast his vote, with the
\nproposers and seconder as Teller.\u201d\u00a0 The same mode applies in the House
\nof Representatives.<\/p>\n

Ostensibly, the APC leadership, acting in concert with the presidency,
\nis ill-at-ease with the secret ballot mode. It would have loved to see
\nmembers-elect of the party that will dare to vote against its positions
\non the floors of the two chambers. But for a member of the 7th National
\nAssembly, Senator Yisa Braimoh, who represented Edo North on the
\nplatform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), open ballot should be
\nadopted.<\/p>\n

That was the mode that was adopted on June 5, 2007 in the election that
\npitted David Mark and George Akume against each other. That was the
\nfirst and only time open ballot would be adopted in the Fourth Republic
\nSenate leadership election. Both Mark and Akume belonged to the ruling
\nPDP. The standing rule was not specific on the election mode. The party,
\nunder Ahmadu Ali, had informed members-elect that Mark was its candidate
\nfor senate president and Mulikat Adeola was its candidate for Speaker.
\nAlthough Mark won in the Senate and Adeola lost to Aminu Tambuwwal who
\ndared to challenge the party\u2019s decision, Mark\u2019s victory did not go
\nwithout a strong challenge on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Braimoh was one of the senators who voted for Akume in the
\nopen ballot that was adopted, a move that indicated their
\nindependent-mindedness and courage to differ with the party. He and
\nother senators who voted for Akume, however, received raw deals from the
\nMark leadership in appointments into standing and ad-hoc committees. In
\nretrospect, Braimoh believes he took the right decision. He believes
\nopen ballot will help to strengthen democracy and independence of the
\nthree arms of government.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cthat is why I remain of the firm belief that the
\nopen ballot system, if adopted, now or permanently, will guarantee the
\ngenuine wish of Senators-elects (and members-elect) for the emergence of
\nthe senate leadership. Secret ballot safeguards hypocrisy, disloyalty
\nand pretence.\u201d\u00a0 As appealing as his position maybe, the fact remains
\nthat the standing orders of both chambers have yet to be amended and the
\nCNA, who is a lawyer, will be guided by the rules of both chambers on
\nthe mode of election contained therein: secret ballot. Until the rules
\nare amended, the agitation for open ballot remains futile.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0OJEIFO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE CONGRESSWATCH MAGAZINE,
\nCONTRIBUTED THIS PIECE\u00a0VIAOJWONDERNGR@YAHOO.COM<\/a><\/p>\n

Sufuyan Ojeifo
\nEditor- in- Chief
\nThe Congresswatch Magazine
\n+234 8034727013\u00a0 \u00a0 +234 8023024800<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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