Senate suspends Omo-Agege till 2019, disbands Buhari support group
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his comments which infuriated other senator was seen as unethical and the senate mandated its committee on ethics to investigate the matter1 the senate on thursday suspended a pro-buhari senator ovie omo-agege for 90 legislative days for his remarks during and after the consideration of the electoral acts amendment1 with the suspension omo-agege will stay suspended for 90 legislative days. this means that if the senate were to sit without any interruption recess or adjournment for committee work it would take 30 weeks 7 months for omo-agege to completely serve his suspension1 currently the senate is yet to take its over 2-months long annual recess as well as its december break during which times the suspension will not be counted1 the senator had gone against the senate during the consideration of the electoral act amendment and went ahead to grant a press conference where he said that the move by the senate was targetted at president muhammadu buhari1 the senator was one of the 9 other senators who had insisted during the amendment that the election sequence targeted president muhammadu buhari1 omo-ageges suspension followed the recommendation of the senate committee on ethics privileges and public petitions chaired by senator sam anyanwu1 however omo-agege who later recanted came to the floor on another legislative day to tender an unreserved apology to his colleagues however deputy president of the senate ike ekweremadu who presided over the days plenary only noted the apology and asked the ethics committee to submit its reports as soon as possible1 while submitting its report on thursday the sam anyanwu-led committee recommended that the lawmaker be suspended for 181 legislative days1 however after pleas from many of his colleagues the senate resolved to suspend senator omo-agege for 90 legislative days1 in a related development the senate also disbanded the parliamentary support group for president muhammadu buhari1 the group was chaired by senator abdullahi adamu while sen. omo-agege was the secretary. the group was made up of 11 members including the late sen. ali wakili1 more details later1