By Naomi Sharang/Kingsley Okoye
Abuja
The Senate has written President Bola Tinubu on the inauguration of the 10th Assembly.
This followed a motion by the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin during plenary on Wednesday.
Moving the motion, Jibrin said “That the Senate do send a message to Mr President C-in-C informing him that a quorum of the Senate has assembled.
“And that the Presiding Officers of the 10 Senate, National Assembly have been elected as follows:Sen. Godswill Akpabio (Akwa-Ibom North-West); Sen. Barau Jibrin (Kano North).
“That the Senate do send a congratulatory message to the Honourable Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives on their election; and that the Senate had elected its Presiding Officers.
“That the Senate do send a message to the following International Parliamentary Bodies informing them that a quorum of the Senate of the 10th National Assembly has assembled and is ready to receive any communication.
“African Union (AU); Common Wealth Parliamentary Association (CPA); Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU); ECOWAS Parliament;
“Pan African Parliament and Association of Senate, Shoora and Equivalent Council in Africa and the Arab World”.
The upper chamber also set up a Welfare Committee to look into the welfare of members.
Sen. Isa Jibrin (APC-Kogi ) is to chair the committee while Darlington Nwokocha (LP-Abia) is the Vice-chairman.
Meanwhile, the Senate on Wednesday, adjourned plenary until July 4.
This followed the adoption of a motion by Deputy President of Senate, Sen. Barau Jubril (APC-Kano) at Wednesday’s plenary.
Senate earlier approved a motion informing President Bola Tinubu that a quorum of the 10th Senate had been assembled and that the Presiding Officers had been elected.
It also adopted a motion to write letters of congratulatory messages to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives on their election.
The letters will also notify them of the election of the President and Deputy President of the Senate.
It also at plenary adopted a motion to write to international parliamentary bodies informing them that a quorum of the 10th Senate had been assembled and that the Senate was ready to receive communication.
The bodies included the African Union (AU), ECOWAS Parliament, Common Wealth Parliamentary Association (CWPA), Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) among others.
