President Buhari to meet with 109 Senators tonight
President Muhammadu Buhari will meet with the 109 senators of the National Assembly.
The scheduled meeting between members of the upper chamber and President Buhari was conveyed in a letter received from the State House and read during plenary by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan.
“I write to inform the Distinguished President of the Senate, that President Muhammadu Buhari will host a dinner of Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Tuesday, 13th July 2021, at 8 pm 20:00 hrs,” the letter read, adding that, “The venue is at the State House Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja.”
The Senate on April 27 reached a resolution for the leadership of the upper chamber to schedule a meeting with the President to enable all 109 Senators to meet with him to discuss the issue of insecurity in the country.
Although the details of the meeting is still sketchy, it is coming at a time when the lawmakers rejected the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner.
Onochie, who serves as Digital and Social Media Aide to the President, was nominated by President Buhari in October 2020 to represent Delta State in the electoral umpire.
Her rejection on Tuesday followed the conspiracy between some members of the PDP, who claim she is a card carrying member of All Progressives Congress (APC) and, surprisingly members of APC.
The DEFENDER reports that after Tuesday night’s meeting, what PDP, its members and some unsuspecting members of the public have rejoiced over may turn out to be their sadness as, according to a source not willing to be disclosed, “the table may turn against them”.
