THE House of Representatives today resumed plenary which presided over by the Speaker, Hon Yakubu Dogara without hitch despite impeachment threat by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have dumped the Party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
However, the Plenary was immediately adjourned till today over the death of a member, from Kwara State, the late Hon Olufunke Adedoyin who passed away on September 28th, this year after a brief illness.
Hon Dogara formally read a letter from the Adedoyin Family announcing the death of the Hon member after which prayers and a minute silence was observed for her after which the sitting was adjourned till tomorrow.
The members however exchanged banters and related orderly and their experiences on the just concluded party primaries in their different constituencies before the commencement of the business of the day.
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It was gathered that some of them failed to secure their tickets while some others secured tickets to return to the House under other Political Parties than their current Platforms haven denied tickets by their original parties.
A member who spoke with the Tribune Online in confidence said that it would be difficult to determine which. Of the political Parties that now control the majority seats in the Chamber based on the outcome of the primaries as some members were denied tickets by their original Political Parties which made them seek for tickets under different political Platforms.
Meanwhile, the members of the National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum NASLAF on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest over the non-payment of their salaries and outstanding allowances by the management of the National Assembly which they put at N5. 8billion.
The protesters from both the Senate and House of Representatives Chambers put at over 3, 000 had converged at the Lobby of the National Assembly before the resumption of plemary with various placards with inscription such: as “Omolori, the NASS ‘all boil if u faill to pay our outstanding salaries and allowances,” NASS leadership,we are not slaves, we are workers, pay us,” among others.
They threatened to make the the planned resumption of the apex legislature impossible unless their grievances were addressed.
The Chairman of the NASAF Comrade Sam Melaye who addressed the protesters said that he had met with the management of the NASS over the matter and they had reached an agreement on the mode to be adopted for the payment of the outstanding salaries and allowances.