The National Assembly has announced that all senators, members of the House of Representatives and their aides have been restricted from passing the long corridor in front of the office of the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
Naijaonpoint learnt that the Office of the Serjeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, in an internal memo on Thursday, notified lawmakers of reinforced security measures around the Senate Chamber, the gangway, and the corridor.
According to SaharaReporters, the memo dated October 2, addressed to the Chairman of Senate Services and signed by Brig-Gen Etido E Ekρο (retd), stated that all lawmakers and aides would be restricted from the White House lobby.
The memo further stated that lawmakers should disseminate the information to their aides and personal assistants.
“All aides or personal assistants would not be allowed into the said corridor,” the memo indicated.
Meanwhile, Akpabio has hinted that more governors from opposition parties are considering defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to align with President Bola Tinubu.
Akpabio made this assertion in Owerri during the launch of a book, “Ten Years of Impactful Leadership of the APC Administration in Nigeria,” authored by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, alongside the commissioning of projects by President Tinubu.
In his goodwill message at the event, Akpabio told the President to expect a wave of defections from opposition states.
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