Shettima, Remi Tinubu in attendance as senate holds valedictory session

Vice-President Kashim Shettima and Oluremi Tinubu, the first lady, are present for the last sitting of the ninth senate.

Among other activities, the senators are to “certificates of legislative service” at the valedictory session being held in the upper legislative chamber.

Shettima, Tinubu’s wife, Senate President Ahmad Lawan and Ovie Omo-Agege, deputy senate president, were the first set of senators to receive their certificates.

Chinedu Akubueze, the clerk of the senate, is responsible for handing out the certificates to the senators.

Shettima represents Borno central while Oluremi represents Lagos central.

The valedictory session was earlier fixed for Thursday but was postponed till Saturday because of a meeting the president had with national assembly members-elect of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The meeting, TheCable understands, centred on the process for producing the presiding officers of the 10th national assembly.

The ruling party nominated Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, and Barau Jibrin, senator representing Kano north, as senate president and deputy.

In the house of representatives, APC chose Tajudeen Abbas, a lawmaker from Kaduna, and Benjamin Kalu, a lawmaker from Imo, as speaker and deputy.

Despite the position of the party, Abdulaziz Yari, a former governor of Zamfara, and Orji Uzor Kalu, chief whip of the senate, have insisted on running for the office of the senate president.