Abubakar made the commendation in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Paul Ibe, on Tuesday in Abuja.
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The Governor of Sokoto State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has condemned in strong terms Tuesday’s invasion of and siege on the National Assembly complex in Abuja by armed security operatives.
Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said the blockade of the National Assembly today by operatives of the Department of State Services was unauthorised and condemned it as a gross violation of constitutional order, rule of law and all accepted notions of law and order.
In a statement issued by his media aide, Paul Ibe, in Abuja, Abubakar said that the purpose of the blockade was to force a change in the leadership of the Senate.
A member of the Senate, Senator Isa Misau, says siege at the National Assembly on Tuesday by Department of State Service operatives was a “bad example to other African democracies’’.
The operatives left the entrance shortly after their Director General, Lawal Daura, was sacked by the Acting Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
The notice of Daura’s sack was contained in a statement by the spokesman of the Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, on Tuesday
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the two security chiefs, who arrived Aso Rock at different times, were to update the acting president on security developments including the blockade of the National Assembly by security officials.
This information is contained in a statement issued by the acting President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; the Leader of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; and the Presidential Liaison Officer (Senate), Dr. Ita Enang, on Monday met behind closed doors over the need for the National Assembly, especially the Senate, to reconvene to consider some urgent national matters before it.
Enang and Senator Ahmed Lawan, Senate Majority Leader, gave this indication while addressing State House correspondents shortly after a closed-door meeting with Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday in Abuja.
The two arms were to proceed on annual vacation two days after that, but suddenly announced the commencement of the vacation
The appeal was made by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang at a news conference in Lagos.
Late-night statements by party leaders suggest that if the party is sleeping at all, it is doing so with one eye open. With Senate President Bukola Saraki and three governors out and a few more almost sure to leave the APC, it’s not only rice stones that the APC will have to worry about.
The judgement dismissed the earlier verdict of the Federal High Court, which stopped the National Assembly from overriding the assent of the President on the bill
The French parliament on Wednesday passed a law doubling the period foreign citizens can be detained pending deportation from 45 to 90 days.
Ndume made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday.
Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, made the call when he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Federal High Court judgment nullified by the Court of Appeal was delivered on April 25, 2018
All Progressives Congress, APC, members in House of Representatives have advised their Peoples Democratic Party colleagues to push for reconvening from recess rather than blame President Muhammadu Buhari on issues.