The Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, Today, October 17, called for an emergency closed session of the Senate during plenary.
Reports say that the emergency closed session was a sequel to a walkout of the chambers by the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, after Senate President Godswill Akpabio ruled him out of order.
The Senate Chief Whip was reported to have cited order 54 of the Senate Standing Orders and raised a point of order.
Ndume, after raising the order, called the Senate President’s attention to his approach to handling issues and how he disagrees with it.
He said: “Mr. President, there are some things we do in this chamber that are against the rules. Sir, nobody is too big to learn…”
However, Akpabio interjected at that point and called for a copy of the Standing Orders.
He proceeded to read order 54 and said it did not support the point Ndume was making and thereafter ruled him out of order.
Following this, Ndume packed the files papers on his desk and, stormed out of the Chamber and went straight to his office.
Last week, Ndume also called the attention of the Senate President to the observation that the latter passes bills without calling for the inpute of members of the red chamber.
In storming out of the house today, Ndume went straight to his office.
He was reportedly just settling down when he received a call from a colleague to return to the chamber for an executive session.
Details soon…