Senate was few minutes ago thrown into roudy session following sitting arrangement.
Reportedly three Senators got involved in a heated debate over the sitting arrangement in the chamber which is being used for the first time after months of renovation.
This is even as the Senator representing Gombe Central, Danjuma Goje, and the Senator representing Zamfara North, Sahabi Yau, expressed displeasure over the seats assigned to them and complained to the Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele.
The argument began just as Senate President Godswill Akpabio was reading his welcome address following the five weeks of Easter and Sallah break, including the forced extension due to renovation works by the federal lawmakers.
It was learnt that Goje and Yau, sitting on the second row on the right side of the aisle, did not like the seats allocated to them by the Senate Committee on Services.
The four-term senators subsequently insisted that they should have been assigned seats in the front row on the extreme right—opposite the row of the majority leader and the deputy senate president.
After the argument, Kawu Sumaila, senator representing Kano south, called for a “point of order”, which was ignored, leading to Bamidele moving a motion for a closed session, which the law makers approved.
