The Senate has threatened to boycott plenary unless the Independent National Electoral Commission conducts rerun elections in Rivers and Anambra states to fill their vacant seats in the National Assembly before December 10.
The Senate’s resolution asking INEC to conduct the rerun polls not later than December 10 was reached on Wednesday, following a motion by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
Following nullifications of the 2015 National Assembly and State Assembly elections in Rivers State by the court, INEC conducted rerun polls on March 19.
In the Senate, Rivers State does not have representatives.
Also, the Anambra Central senatorial rerun, that was initially slated for March 5, was indefinitely postponed by INEC days to the poll, following a High Court ruling ordering inclusion of the Peoples Democratic Party.
INEC had barred PDP from the election because its guideline says no new candidate would be allowed in rerun polls. PDP’s candidate in the first poll, Uche Ekwunife, decamped to All Progressives Congress just after the Court of Appeal nullified her election.
After the motion was passed, Senate President Bukola Saraki said INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, was duty-bound to justify his words during his screening before the Senate.
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