During what appeared to be a dramatic moment, the National Assembly session on Tuesday was interrupted when power went off, leading to chaos in the meeting venue.
Humorously, the Minister of Power, Adelabu Adebayo, was in the building as the whole chaos was ongoing.
The session, statutorily scheduled for 10 a.m. did not start until about 12 p.m. shortly after power was restored and the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, arrived in the chamber.
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While the outage lasted, there was heat in the chamber making many of the senators, who had arrived early for the day’s business, feel uncomfortable.
Akpabio disclosed that apart from the Senate chamber, about nine offices within the complex were also affected by the outage.
“However, I have noticed even, the press, some of them are fanning themselves. At least they feel the heat also. If it gets too hot then we may have to adjourn for a while to allow them to conclude but they are working on it. I apologise for any inconvenience” Mr Akpabio said.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Committee on Senate Services, Sunday Karimi, said the power outage was caused by a fault in the generator.
“It is an uncommon incident. Since the 10th Assembly, we have not heard this kind of experience. Often when we are sitting, we use the generator. Unfortunately today, our generator developed a fault. It has nothing to do with the fuel issue. So, it was time to switch to the second generator used by the House of Representatives.
“You will also observe that within 10 to 15 minutes of switching, our generator was restored”, he added.
