Akpabio calls senators to emergency plenary of ‘national importance’
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has summoned an emergency meeting of the Senate few hours to the commencement of the planned nationwide protest billed for August 1st 2024.
A circular signed by the Clerk, Chinedu Akubueze, on Monday said the meeting was of “National Importance”.
There was no further details regarding the emergency meeting.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, just 24 hours before the commencement of the nationwide planned protest against hunger and hardship.
The memo wrote, “Dear Distinguished Senators, the President of the Senate, His Excellency, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, GCON, has directed that an emergency plenary sitting of the Senate be convened as follows: Date: WEDNESDAY, JULY 31st, 2024; TIME: 12 NOON.
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“Distinguished Senators are requested to make all necessary arrangements to attend as issues of national importance will be discussed. We regret all inconveniences that this interruption of the recess will cause. Thanks for your usual understanding.”
It would be recalled that the National Assembly had commenced a seven-week recess and was expected to reconvene on September 17th, 2024.
The recess was announced after the plenary last week Wednesday.
Both chambers of the Assembly – Senate, and House of Representatives, were supposed to be on break for seven weeks which is their yearly recess.
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