The ninth session of the Senate was inaugurated on 11 June 2019.
Senate PresidentHe said the session was earlier scheduled for Thursday but was postponed because of the request from President Bola Tinubu to hold a meeting with all the lawmakers–elect.
“We believe that a session as significant, important, historical and memorable as a valedictory session of the Senate requires a whole day, not one, two, three hours. Therefore we pushed it to Saturday.” He added that he was not bothered that the upper chamber was tagged “rubber stamp.” According to him, the ninth Senate passed many laws out of which former President Muhammadu Buhari assented to about 112.
The 109-member Senate was inaugurated on 11 June 2019. On the same day, it elected Mr Lawan from Borno as its president and Ovie Omo-Agege as his deputy.
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