NASS leadership joins FEC meeting

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, and other key members of the National Assembly leadership are currently part of the ongoing meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

This is an unusual development since the advent of the present democratic dispensation that the Council presided over by the president is admitting the leadership of the legislature into the Council Chamber for the meeting.

No official communication was passed to newsmen, but it was gathered that their invitation to the Council meeting was impromptu.

The National Assembly leadership arrived at the venue at about 1.38pm.

Their involvement in the council meeting comes amid buorgeoning tension over the planned protest by some Nigerians against the rising cost of living in the country.

Both the executive and non-executive are in desperate efforts to ameliorate the hardship in the country and trying to convince those organizing the protest of the need to call it off.