Tension in the National Assembly on Wednesday took another dimension as All Progressives Congress (APC) senators moved to forcefully reconvene the Senate. The tension, it would be recalled, was triggered by the recent defection of 14 senators and 37 House of Representatives members from APC to People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Africa Democratic Congress (ADC) respectively. To this end, some senators were seen on Wednesday morning gathering in front of the Senate building. The senators seen include, Senate Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawal, Hope Uzodinma (APC, Imo), Yusuf Yusuf (APC, Taraba), among others. The lawmakers, however, drove to the Presidential Villa in a bus after about ten minutes of staying at the Senate. The move may not be unconnected with the declaration by the Presidency last week that the two months recess embarked upon by the two chambers of the National had become a threat to some Presidential requests pending before the National Assembly. It was learnt that one of the issues for which the APC lawmakers are seeking to get the Senate to reconvene is the N242 billion budget proposal for the conduct of the 2019 election. But the move by the senators to forcefully reconvene contradicts the Senate standing rule. The Senate standing rule says that only the President of the Senate has the powers to reconvene the Senate if it becomes necessary for the upper chamber to sit on a date different from the date it had earlier adjourned to. According to the Senate rule: “Whenever the Senate stands adjourned either to a date fixed by the rule of the Senate or to a date determined in accordance with paragraph (1) of his Rule and it is represented by the Leaders of the political Parties in the Senate to the President of the Senate that the Public interest requires that the Senate should meet on an earlier or a later date or time than that on which it stands adjourned, the President of the Senate may give notice accordingly, and the Senate shall meet on the date and at the time stated in the notice.”]]>

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