The Senate on Wednesday denied allegation that senators have been financially induced to vote for the extension of emergency rule in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States.
The Senate described the allegation as utter rubbish.
Also after a two-hour closed doors session, the Senate again on Wednesday failed to approved the extension of emergency rule in three states in North East.
Rather, it summoned the service chiefs to explain why the emergency rule must be extended.
According to the Senate President, Senator David Mark, who said that the lawmakers had a very robust and detailed discussion on the subject, they will however resume talks on Thursday.
Mark said that the Senate during the session also resolved to invite the Service Chiefs to be part of the discussion.
Briefing the press further on the outcome of the closed doors session, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, said the Senate had a very robust discussion and agreed that talks should continueon Thursday and to as well have the nation’s service chiefs present to “brief us more on what is going on in these states.
“We are going to act based on the additional information they are going to give us.”
Abaribe also said that the Senate hopes to get more information from governors of the three affected states to enable it decide on Thursday.
He added: “If we are going to pass the request, I think it will not be very unusual that we get the necessary information to guide our decisions.
“We hope that by tomorrow (Thursday), we should be able to reach a decision.”
Abaribe dismissed as unfounded the allegation that senators have been financially induced to vote for the extension, stating that such allegation is utter rubbish as he believes that no senator was given money to for the approval of the request of President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said: “No such thing happened.”
It could be recalled that Senate had since it received President Jonathan’s request been having a very difficult time getting the northern and opposition senators give their consent to it.
Debate on the request, which began on Tuesday, was pushed into a second day in a closed session, following the inability of the Senate leadership to convince the aggrieved senators on the merits of extending the state of emergency, which has already elapsed in the affected three states.