A mild drama unfolded at the National Assembly on Wednesday when some senators broke with tradition and attended the plenary of the House of Representatives ahead of the scheduled joint session to receive the 2024 budget from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Established parliamentary procedures dictate that senators conduct a brief plenary session in their own chamber before joining their House counterparts for the joint session.
However, some senators, including Aliyu Wammako (APC Sokoto North) and Monday Okphebolo (APC Edo Central), defied protocol and prematurely entered the House chamber.
Politics Nigeria gathered that upon realising their mistakes, the Senators who committed the legislative errors quickly ran out of the chamber to join their colleagues in the Senate chamber.
However, as at the time Wammakko and Okphebolo were hurrying back to the Red Chamber, their colleagues from the Senate had suspended their plenary for the joint session.
