At first, when more senators shouted “nay”, Saraki said: “Please colleagues let’s be serious. I will put it to vote again.” He did a second time, the “nays” were louder, but he ruled: “The ayes have it.”
Meanwhile, the Senate has rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s external borrowing plan of $30bn for the execution of projects from 2016 to 2018. The nays had it when the borrowing plan was put to a vote on the floor of the chamber during the plenary on Tuesday.
The borrowing plan was not debated at all.
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