Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the
house of representatives, has pleaded with lawmakers in the lower legislative
chamber not to embarrass President Muhammadu Buhari by staging a protest during
thebudget presentation.
It was learnt that aggrieved
lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who did not get tickets to
contest the 2019 polls were planning to protest against the president.
Some Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) lawmakers also plotted to partake in the protest, a legislative source
said.
But the source said during a
closed-door session on Thursday, Dogara pleaded with the aggrieved lawmakers in
the which lasted about 12 minutes not to
protest against Buhari as he is presenting the 2019 budget proposal.
Another source said after the
plea, some of the aggrieved lawmakers submitted their placards to Kawu Sumaila,
senior special assistant to the president on national assembly matters (house
of representatives).
“They have started submitting
their placards to Kawu,” the source said.
“They are aggrieved, you know
most of them did not get their tickets and that is why they want to protest.
That is the reason for the delay, the joint session was supposed to start at
12am.”
Last week, some lawmakers in the
lower legislative chamber threatened to boycott the budget presentation.
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com