Senators, on Tuesday, experienced a blackout as they waited for electricity to be restored to the National Assembly complex before the commencement of sitting.
It will be recalled that the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company had in February, threatened to disconnect electricity in the Presidential Villa and eighty-six Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments, and Agencies over outstanding debts of over forty-seven billion naira as of December 2023.
A video revealing the red chamber in partial darkness circulated on social media, on Tuesday, and according to reports, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, commenced plenary after power was restored some minutes later.
Akpabio apologized for the outage and the heat in the Chamber, disclosing that about nine offices were still experiencing outage as work was ongoing to rectify the situation.
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