The leadership of the national
assembly never agreed to reconvene on Tuesday.
Last week, Yusuf Lasun, deputy
speaker of the house of representatives, announced the lawmakers will be
cutting short their recess to reconvene this week.
He had said the agenda will
primarily be the presidential request for virement of funds for the operations
of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 elections.
However, unlike the customary
practice, less than 24 hours to the planned date (Tuesday), the lawmakers are
yet to be informed of the decision to cut short the recess.
TheCable reports that various lawmakers who spoke to them revealed that they have not received any of such letter from Mohammed
Sani-Omolori, clerk of the national assembly.
A national assembly official said
contrary to Lasun’s claim, the leadership was yet to decide on a date to reconvene.
One of the sources said what was
agreed at the meeting with Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, was that the relevant
committees should work with INEC on sorting the commission’s budget.
“There is nothing like that
(reconvening),” the source said, adding: “I wonder who told the deputy speaker
the national assembly will reconvene, it is not true. They won’t reconvene
tomorrow.
“If the lawmakers are
reconvening, you would have seen the announcement in the media. To the best of
my knowledge, no plan to reconvene.
“What they did that day was that
they told the committees to start working with the INEC leadership; you know
the budget brought was too much. So they asked them to work with INEC on it so
that whenever they are reconvening, it will be to follow the other due process
and work on what the committee has.”
“It is possible (to reconvene);
you can’t rule it out. But currently, nothing like that,” he said.
Abdulrazak Namdas, spokesman of
the house of representatives, also confirmed to TheCable that the lawmakers
were yet to be informed about any plan to cut short the recess.
“I have not been officially
communicated (regarding reconvening on Tuesday),” he told TheCable on phone.
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