Senate resumes plenary Thursday

The Senate is set to resume the plenary on Thursday as opposed to its early proposed July 2 resumption.

The Senate had on Tuesday, June 11, adjourned the plenary to resume on Tuesday, July 2.

The announcement of the early resumption is coming amidst the rumours that the Senate is set to approve the purchase of the presidential jet, which is said to be contained in the Supplementary budget.

Speaking on the resumption on Wednesday, the Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, said, “It’s our statutory resumption from the Sallah break. Senate has the constitutional power to regulate its sessions, and we believe that we could gain one more legislative day to deal with national and constitutional issues, hence the bringing forward from the initial July 2.

“We hope to deal with issues concerning our further oversight on the Appropriations and clear further the hanging issues of constitutional and electoral concerns, and clear outstanding bills and motions, expectedly before our annual recess, later in the year.”

On Tuesday, the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, stated that the Red Chamber had not approved the purchase of new presidential jets for President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.

He further described such a report as ‘malicious.’

He said, “I want to dispel the rumour that you are hearing that the Senate President said he would buy a new plane for the President and his Vice, irrespective of the fact that Nigerians are hungry or whatever.

“I never said that. I was actually in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is the handiwork of propagandists and fifth columnists who never see anything good in what we are doing.”