The Senate in plenary Monday hurriedly went into closed door session over screening of Festus Keyamo (SAN) as a ministerial nominee from Delta state.
Keyamo was the last nominee to be screened by the Senate out of the 48 forwarded to it by President Bola Tinubu for confirmation.
Trouble came the way of Keyamo during the aborted screening, when the Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Darlington Nwokocha (LP Abia Central), raised constitutional point of order to move a motion to suspend the screening exercise.
Nwokocha who raised section 88(b) of the Constitution to move the motion, drew attention of the Senate to disobedience of summon served on Keyamo by both the Senate and the House of Representatives in 2020 over implementation of N52billion public works across the 774 local government councils in Nigeria.
Senator Enyinnnaya Abaribe (APGA Abia South), seconded the motion , which led to chaos in the Senate, when it was put to voice votes by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele (APC Ekiti Central), however rescued the red chamber from the chaotic session by calling for closed door session, which was seconded by the minority leader, Simon Nwadkwon (PDP South).
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