BEVERLY HILLS, October 26, (THEWILL) – Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara are presently meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo after the lawmakers and other principal officers of the National Assembly angrily left the pilot gate of the presidential villa when security officers insisted on frisking them and putting them through security before allowing them passage. He said the dinner will now hold next Tuesday.
“President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday, October 31, 2017, host the leadership of the National Assembly to dinner at the Presidential Villa.
“At a private dinner with the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, at the State House, President Buhari said the dinner, earlier arranged for Thursday, October 26, will now hold on Tuesday.
“The new date is occasioned by a security mix up that attended the earlier scheduled meeting.
*** Editor’s note: This report has been updated to reflect that other principal officers of the National Assembly did not return to the villa with Saraki and Dogara.
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