The 9th House of Representatives has wound down, with the last plenary of the parliament held on Wednesday adjourned sine die (indefinitely).<\/p>\n
The House held its valedictory session on Wednesday, which the outgoing Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, presided over.<\/span><\/p>\n Leaders and members of the House spent about three and a half hours that the session lasted to recall major events recorded in the chamber in the last four years.<\/span><\/p>\n In attendance were former presiding and principal officers of the House, including Ghali Na\u2019Abba, Patricia Etteh, Babangida Ngoroje, Mulikat Akande-Adeola, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n Etteh spoke on behalf of the ex-lawmakers, after which Gbajabiamila presented 9th House membership certificates to members, starting with the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase.<\/span><\/p>\n The Speaker noted that it was the first time in the history of the National Assembly that certificates would be issued to outgoing members.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, the principal officers took photographs with Gbajabiamila.<\/span><\/p>\n At the close of the session, Gbajabiamila asked the Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, to move a motion for the House to adjourn sine die. It was seconded by the Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu.<\/span><\/p>\n Gbajabiamila put the motion to voice vote, which the lawmakers unanimously adopted.<\/span><\/p>\n The 10th National Assembly is billed for inauguration on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 9th House of Representatives has wound down, with the last plenary of the parliament held on Wednesday adjourned sine die (indefinitely).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7096,544,327],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-9th-house-of-reps","tag-nass","tag-national-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13901,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions\/13901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}