The Senate made the amendment yesterday during plenary.
The amendment of Rule three subsection two, one to three of the Senate Standing Orders follows a motion moved by the Senate Leader Senator Opeyemi Bamidele.
With the new amendment to the standing orders of the Senate, first-term senators are now excluded from those qualified or eligible to contest for the position of presiding officers of the upper chamber.
Rule 3 of the Senate Standing Orders as amended now stipulates that any senator wishing to contest for the position of the Senate President and Deputy Senate President must have spent a minimum of one term in the Senate.
