The Senate and the House of Representatives – both chambers making up the National Assembly – are currently holding a joint session.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara announced that members of the House of Representatives and Senate will be having the joint executive session.
Members of the Senate have since moved into the Green chamber for the joint executive session which is being held closed-door.
Although details of the joint emergency meeting are yet to be revealed, it comes during the period when there are reported frictions between the executives and legislative arm.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris’ failure on three different occasions to appear before the Senate after he was summoned to explain the spate of killings across the country had earlier raised specks of dusts of friction between the IGP, the Senate and Senate President Bukola Saraki.
Also, members of the New Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had on Monday withdrawn from its scheduled talks with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
They attributed the decision to, among other things, the treatment of the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by security agencies.
The group further alleged that the police is planning to rope the Senate President into the Offa bank robbery.
They added that the Department of State Security’s withdrawal of half of Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s security detail is also aimed at spiting the legislative arm.
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