The festering lead­ership crisis in the Senate has forced re­sumption of plenary from the scheduled July 21 by one more week.

Senate will now resume in plenary on July 28.

Saturday Sun gathered that three reasons forced a shift of resumption of Senators in plenary. One: There is the need for the All Progressives Congress (APC), which con­trols the chamber with 59 Senators, and has been em­broiled in a leadership crisis since June 9, to communicate the eventual resolution of the matter to its senators.

It was gathered that the Senate Unity Forum, a fac­tion of the APC caucus loyal to Senator Ahmad Lawan, who is the party’s candidate for Senate Presidency, has refused to recognise the le­gality of the Tuesday, June 9 election of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.

The Forum has also refused to acknowledge the appoint­ments of Senator Ali Ndume as Senate Leader and Sena­tor Bala Ibn Na’Allah as his deputy.

Last month, Edo State Gov­ernor, Adams Oshiomhole was mandated by the party and the APC Governors’ Fo­rum to mediate in the crisis in the APC Senate caucus.

A National Assembly source disclosed yesterday evening that the major reason for the shift is hinged on the visit of President Muhamma­du Buhari to the United States of America. The president is scheduled to be away from Nigeria for four days begin­ning tomorrow.

“In addition to communi­cating the terms of the reso­lution to our colleagues, the president will not be in Nige­ria on July 21. We don’t want to take any decision behind him. We want to wait for the president to come back, avail him of any resolution that may be reached in his absence and if there’s any need to ad­just, the president would be in the country to guide us…

“Third, it is important to al­low senators settle down, re­solve outstanding accommo­dation issues so that when the Senate resumes in plenary, legislative business takes off full blast,” said he.

SOURCE:http://sunnewsonline.com/new/leadership-crisis-forces-senate-resumption-to-july-28/

They are not serious at all.
Going on recess with no work done and here they are again extending their resumption.
I am sure after two sittings on resumption they will go on a three months recess again.
I see these guys becoming an issue to PMB's success

Its unfortunate that house of assembly has turn to party secretariat where party issue is trending than National issue....its almost two months now,nothing tangible has been discuss in the hallow chamber!this change dey sweet me ooooo