Dogara Pleaded With Reps Not To Embarrass Buhari

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Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, has pleaded with
lawmakers in the lower legislative chamber not to embarrass President
Muhammadu Buhari by staging a protest during thebudget presentation.

TheCable
learnt that aggrieved lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
who did not get tickets to contest the 2019 polls were planning to
protest against the president.

Some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers also plotted to partake in the protest, a legislative source said.

But
the source said during a closed-door session on Thursday, Dogara
pleaded with the aggrieved lawmakers in the which lasted about 12
minutes not to protest against Buhari as he is presenting the 2019
budget proposal.

Another source said after the plea, some of the
aggrieved lawmakers submitted their placards to Kawu Sumaila, senior
special assistant to the president on national assembly matters (house
of representatives).

“They have started submitting their placards to Kawu,” the source said.

“They
are aggrieved, you know most of them did not get their tickets and that
is why they want to protest. That is the reason for the delay, the
joint session was supposed to start at 12am.”

Last week, some lawmakers in the lower legislative chamber threatened to boycott the budget presentation.

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