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Reps shift resumption to December 16
The House of Representatives has extended its resumption by two weeks.
The House was due to resume on Wednesday from its recess which began on October 28.
However, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, in a statement on Tuesday said the House will now resume on December 16.
According to him, the postponement was necessitated by the political party activities leading to primaries to be conducted by all political parties during the period.
It reads: “This is to notify members of the House of Representatives that the resumption of the House from recess earlier scheduled for December 3, 2014 has been postponed.
“The House will now resume on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 10am.
“The Leadership of the House of Representatives took note of the adjustment in the calendar of the political parties and took the decision for the postponement to allow members of the House participate in the forthcoming primaries of their political parties.”
In a related development, the All Progressives Congress caucus in the House has washed its hands off a list purported to have the signatures of lawmakers rooting for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan.
A statement issued by the Leader of the opposition in the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, described the list as “fake.”
A list of over 200 lawmakers from the House of Representatives, including principal officers of the House from the Peoples Democratuc Party (PDP) were published in some online platforms as those that had signed Jonathan’s impeachment list.But Gbajabiamila said the real list would be made public soon.
The statement reads:
“The general public is hereby advised to disregard a fake impeachment list published by some online publicists for obvious sinister intentions.
“None of our APC members in the House of Representatives is party to the fake impeachment list.
“The authentic impeachment list would be published in due course and we urge our constituents across the country to be so guided.”
source: the nation