Seantor Oluremi Tinubu, representing Lagos Central and wife to the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed on Wednesday, November 18, raised dust in the Senate when she gracefully sat on the seat meant for deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, The Cable reports.
It took the shout of Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Tinubu to relocate back to her chair to second a motion for the approval of Lagos state development policy operation loan.
The rebuke came when the senator stood up to speak while still standing in the deputy Senate president corner.
The APC leader’s wife, however, returned back to Ekweremadu’s position, who was absent from plenary immediately after she seconded the motion.
During plenary, the Senate approved the $200 million loan requested by Lagos state government from the World Bank after a debate on the report of its adhoc committee on local and foreign debts.
Senator Danjuwa Goje from Gombe state had initially urged the Senate not to approve the loan stating that it will leave the state with huge debt burden for future governments but later went ahead to give his support for the loan request.
Contributing on the loan request, Senator George Sekibo from Rivers state urged the Senate to put proper check in place to monitor how the money is being handled.