Senates Members Fight Dirty Over Sitting Arrangement

After forty days of Easter and Sallah break, Senators resumed plenary amid a rowdy session after three senators engaged in a heated argument.

This happened in the renovated Hallowed Chamber as the Senators quarrelled over sitting arrangements.

Ecstasy of holding plenary proceedings in the renovated hallowed chamber first enveloped the session at the beginning, but trouble started when the President of the Senate , Godswill Akpabio started reading names of Senators who marked their birthdays during the forty days recess.

Trouble started when Senator Sahabi Alhaji Ya’u, APC Zamfara North, angrily stood up from the seat allocated to him and complained to the Leader, Senator Micheal Opeyemi Bamidele, APC Ekiti Central.

Senator Danjuma Goje, APC, Gombe Central also expressed displeasure of the seats assigned to him and complained to Opeyemi Bamidele.

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The Senators are using the renovated chamber for the first time today, this is coming 19 months after the closure of the Hallowed Chamber.

Recall that both the House of Representatives and the Senate moved to temporary chambers in September 2022 after commencement of renovation work on their Hallowed Chambers by Visible Construction Company Nigeria Limited in July 2022.

The Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) had in March 2021, awarded an N37 billion contract to Visible Construction Limited and some other firms for the rehabilitation of critical segments of the National Assembly complex, construction of the Library, permanent site for the National Assembly Service Commission ( NASC).

The rehabilitation works are almost completed now.