NASS leadership joins FEC meeting

Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, and other members of the National Assembly leadership have joined the ongoing meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

This is the first time since the advent of the present democratic dispensation that the council presided over by the president is admitting the leadership of the legislature into the Council Chamber for the meeting.

It was gathered that their invitation to the meeting was impromptu.

The national assembly leadership arrived at the venue at about 1.38 pm.

Their involvement in the council meeting comes amid tension over the planned protest by some Nigerians against the rising cost of living in the country.

Both the executive and non-executive have been ramping up efforts to ameliorate the hardship in the country and trying to convince those organising the protest of the need to call it off.

Details to come later…

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