The Senate will commence Second Reading and debate on general principles of the N8.83 trillion 2019 budget on Wednesday.
The development comes about three months President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2019 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly.
Senate president, Bukola Saraki, who revealed this at a brief session of the Senate on Tuesday, urged lawmakers to write down their names to indicate when they would make their submission on the appropriation bill.
“We will commence the Second Reading and debate on general principles of the budget. So, colleagues please put your names on the list for Wednesday,” he said.
Saraki also announced that following the absence of Sola Adeyeye (APC, Osun), chairman of the Senate Ad hoc Committee on the New National Minimum Wage Bill, Senate Minority Whip, Francis Alimikhena (APC, Edo) will now head the panel in acting capacity.
Motion for the adjournment was moved by Senate leader, Ahmad Lawan (APC, Yobe) and seconded by Biodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti).
In line with parliamentary practice, the Senate adjourned plenary till Wednesday in honour of a serving member of the House of Representatives, Temitope Olaoye ‘Sugar’.
The lawmaker, who represented Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency of Oyo State, was reportedly shot on the eye by unknown gunmen in Ibadan during the March 9 governorship and state assembly elections.
