On Wednesday, the Senate will meet with the service chiefs to discuss the scary security situation in the country.
Nigerian Tribune checks revealed that the session with the service chiefs will be behind closed doors.
The senator representing Lagos East and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Other Financial Institutions, Adetokunbo Abiru, confirmed the scheduled meeting between the lawmakers and the service chiefs.
The Senate, in its resolution last week, summoned the service chiefs to appear before it on Wednesday.
A senator who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune in confidence said the executive session held on Tuesday was to prepare ahead of the meeting with service chiefs, which he revealed could last for two days: Wednesday and Thursday.
He said, ” We also discussed the worsening economic crisis in the country and dangerous signals from states where Nigerians are already staging protests.”
Senator Abiru told journalists that the scheduled meeting with the Governor of the Central Bank, Olayemi Cardoso, earlier fixed for Tuesday would now take place on Friday.
He said: “After waiting for close to two hours for the CBN Governor on the planned interface, we have resolved to postpone it to Friday this week by 9:00 a.m. prompt.
” Postponement of the interface between our committee and the CBN Governor arose from the fact that he and other managers of the nation’s economy have been interfacing with our colleagues in the House of Representatives since morning without knowing when exactly the session would end.
” We would have fixed Wednesday or Thursday this week as a new day for the interface, but the Senate as a whole has fixed the two days for very critical and constructive engagement with the service chiefs.
” This made us eventually settle for Friday this week to interface with the CBN Governor by 9:00 a.m. prompt.
” Communication to this effect would be forwarded to the CBN Governor today ( Tuesday) and possibly other government officials managing the economy.”
The Senate, at plenary, considered a motion from Senator Ahmad Lawan on the demise of the former governor of Yobe State, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim.
The Red Chamber observed a minute of silence for the deceased and constituted a nine-man delegation for a condolence visit to the governor of Yobe State and the family of the deceased.
The delegation is to be led by former Kebbi governor and senator representing Kebbi Central, Adamu Aliero.