The leadership of the National Assembly has summoned an emergency meeting for Tuesday (today).....
The Special Assistant to the Senate
President on International Relations, Bankole Omisore, called the
meeting via his Twitter handle on Monday.
The tweet reads, “NASS leadership will
tomorrow meet at noon to consider some national issues. The National
Assembly leadership comprises both @NGRSenate and @HouseNGR.
“It will be followed by another meeting with the leadership of @inecnigeria led by its Chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu.”
It was gathered that the meeting, which
will be attended by the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and the
Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and the principal
officers of both chambers would be briefed by INEC on the 2019 general
elections.
It was further gathered that the
leadership would also discuss the recent defections, which had generated
controversies in both chambers.
There had been rumors earlier on Monday
that the National Assembly might reconvene on Tuesday, suspending its
ongoing two-month annual recess. But a source at the Senate dismissed
the resumption reports, stating that it was a leadership meeting and not
plenary.
The source said, “Yes, a joint
leadership meeting has been called for 12 noon tomorrow. The meeting is
on the current issues in the National Assembly, all the issues.
“By 1pm, chairman of INEC and other
leaders of the commission will join the meeting to brief the National
Assembly on the preparations for the 2019 general elections.
Meanwhile, members of the Parliamentary
Democrats Group have said that the Senate and the House will reconvene
only after getting assurances that there will be no attempts to remove
the leadership of the National Assembly.
The spokesman for the PDG, Mr Timothy
Golu, in a statement on Monday, said lawmakers would be briefed on the
outcome of the meeting of the leadership on whether to reconvene or not.
The statement read, “Our leaders are
meeting to brief us on the appeal by the Presidency for us to reconvene.
There must be assurances that no illegality will be attempted against
any of our leaders.
“We are worried by the statements from
some anti-Saraki senators like Adamu Abdullahi and Ali Ndume to the fact
that the Senate President must be changed.
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