Today, on Saturday, December 30, the Senate is set to convene its plenary at 1pm sharp to deliberate on and approve the 2024 budget.
Originally, the Senate had adjourned its plenary on December 21, 2023, aiming to reconvene on December 29 to discuss and pass the 2024 budget. However, a subsequent statement by the Clerk to the Senate, Chinedu Akubueze, shifted the date to Saturday, December 30, 2023, starting at 10 am.
In a fresh update provided by Akubueze in a statement to the press this Saturday morning, the plenary session is rescheduled to commence precisely at 1 pm.
The leadership of the National Assembly had earlier expressed its commitment to passing the 2024 budget before the close of 2023, aligning with the Federal Government’s policy of maintaining the January to December budget cycle.
Akubueze’s terse statement titled: “Plenary sitting to commence at 1pm prompt”, reads in part: “This is to kindly inform Distinguished Senators that the plenary sitting of the Senate, scheduled for Saturday, December 30th, 2023, will hold by 1pm prompt”.
