- National Assembly Restricts Access to Corridor Near Senate President’s Office
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Memo bars lawmakers’ aides and personal assistants from the White House lobby
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Akpabio hints more opposition governors will defect to APC soon.
The National Assembly has imposed new security restrictions barring senators, members of the House of Representatives, and their aides from using the long corridor leading to the office of the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that according to an internal memo issued on Thursday by the Office of the Serjeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, access has now been restricted to the Senate Chamber, the gangway, and the White House lobby.
The memo, dated October 2 and signed by Brigadier-General Etido E. Ekpo (retd), was addressed to the Chairman of Senate Services. It instructed that lawmakers should inform their aides and personal assistants about the new security measures. “All aides or personal assistants would not be allowed into the said corridor,” the notice stated.
The development is part of what officials described as “reinforced security measures” within the legislative complex, though specific reasons were not disclosed.
Meanwhile, Senate President Godswill Akpabio has suggested that more governors from opposition parties are preparing to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking in Owerri during the launch of Ten Years of Impactful Leadership of the APC Administration in Nigeria, a book authored by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, Akpabio said the defections would further strengthen President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
The Senate President also joined Tinubu in commissioning projects in Imo State, where he delivered a goodwill message assuring the President of continued political realignments in favour of the APC.
