Rowdy session at senate as lawmakers bicker over sitting arrangement

However, while Senate President Godswill Akpabio read his
welcome address, the heated argument among the three senators began.

It was learnt that Goje and Yau, sitting on the second row
on the right side of the aisle, did not like the seats allocated to them by the
senate committee on services.

Sunday Karimi, senator representing Kogi west, is chair of
the senate services committee.

The four-term senators subsequently insisted that they
should have been assigned seats on the front row on the extreme right —
opposite the row of the majority leader and the deputy senate president.

After the argument, Kawu Sumaila, senator representing Kano
south, called for a “point of order” which was ignored.

Thereafter, Bamidele moved a motion for a closed-session,
which the senate is currently in.