10th NASS: Tinubu meets lawmakers-elect in Abuja
As the nation prepares for the 10th National Assembly, the presidency has called for a meeting with the lawmakers-elect scheduled to hold today.
The meeting, which was earlier speculated to hold on Monday, but was rescheduled for Sunday (today), owing to the urgency of the matter at hand, may have also been prompted by disagreements among those interested in occupying presiding officer positions in the 10th Assembly.
The Informant247 learned that Senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives, which include those from opposition parties, are expected to attend the highly important meeting.
According to the organisers, the meeting is scheduled to kick-off at 7pm. at the State House, Abuja, owing to the invitation to the meeting which was signed by the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Tijanni Umar, on behalf of the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila.
The tenure of Gbajabiamila, the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, who was recently appointed as Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, will end on June 11, while the 10th session will be inaugurated on June 13.
However, in between these periods, a new leadership is expected to emerge through an election by the lawmakers.
It is, therefore, not clear if the outgoing senators and members of the House will participate in the meeting, as the invitation does not indicate such.
However, it is speculated that it is one of the ways the president is using to persuade the opposition lawmakers to support his nominees for the leadership of the two chambers.
