Senators and members of the house
of representatives have adjourned plenary over the death of Funke Adedoyin, a
lawmaker in the lower legislative chamber.
While members of the lower
legislative chamber will resume on Thursday, those in the senate would
reconvene on Wednesday.
Adedoyin passed on in Abuja on
September 28 after fighting with cancer. She was aged 56.
Until her death, she represented
Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-ero federal constituency of Kwara state in the house.
The late lawmaker was a former
minister of youth development and later minister of state for health.
Adedoyin was one of the lawmakers
who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in July.
At both chambers of the national
assembly on Tuesday, the senators and representatives observed a one-minute
silence in her honour.
Before the upper legislative
chamber adjourned, Senate President Bukola Saraki read a letter from President
Muhammadu Buhari on his reasons for declining assent to some bills. The
amendment of the electoral act was one of the bills rejected by Buhari.
The gallery of the upper
legislative chamber was not opened to journalists.
The lawmakers had been on recess
since July.
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