President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has dismissed insinuations that the leadership of the Ninth National Assembly was planning to tinker with the Senate Committee report on the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021.
He made the clarification, on Wednesday, shortly after the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Senator Kabiru Gaya laid the report before the Senate.
Senator Lawan described the allegations against the leadership of both chambers of the National Assembly as unfounded and mischievous.
While he noted that lobbying was allowed in the business of the Parliament, the President of the Senate advised those who feel strongly against certain provisions of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 to reach out to individual senators rather than recourse to blackmail.
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