The Senate on Monday convened an emergency plenary session to adopt the vote and proceedings of the last plenary, held last Thursday as they related to the new fiscal and electoral officers requests by President Bola Tinubu for its consideration.
Specifically, the emergency plenary was convened to gazette the confirmation of the ten resident electoral commissioners and passage of the 2023 supplementary budget for the President to sign it into law.
The votes and proceedings on the confirmation of the electoral commissioners was not adopted and gazetted before the matter appears in court, there is a high probability that an aggrieved person could secure a court injunction to stop their swearing in.
In order to avoid this, the Senate summoned its members to an emergency plenary to adopt the vote and proceedings of the last plenary so that the confirmation of the electoral commissioners and passage of the supplementary budget will be gazetted and transmitted to the president for assent.
Following the adoption of the vote and proceedings of the last Thursday plenary, the red chamber also deliberated on the need to mandate schools to locate their Creche and Nursery classes to the ground floor of high rise buildings as against the current practice in which such little kids are being taken care in high buildings in some schools.
Sen Adebule Oluranti, who sponsored the motion, told the lawmakers that a toddler, David Udo died after falling from a high rise building at Emerald International School, Aba, Abia State.
The second motion debated was on the urgent need to dredge River Benue in Adamawa State. This motion was sponsored by Abass Iya
Following the deliberation on the motion, the Senate Majority Leader, Sen, Opeyemi Bamidele, moved a motion that the Senate should go into closed door session for further debate on the motions.
Upon resumption from the closed door session, the Senate adjourned the plenary until Tuesday for further deliberations on the motions.
