Workers and guests were on Tuesday morning denied entrance to National Assembly ahead of the inauguration of the 8th Assembly later today.
According to The Nation the Senate is billed to conduct the exercise by the Clerk of the National Assembly before the House of Representatives.
Workers and guests of lawmakers that were at the National Assembly early this morning could not access the complex as all access gates were locked.
A security man that spoke to The Nation, though refused to offer any explanation for the lock out, he however said the gates would be opened by 7. 00am. He said the lock out was on the orders of the Commissioner of Police.
30 minutes after the said time, the gates were still locked.
Journalists that found their ways into the complex before the lock out were driven out by security men that claimed that the inauguration would not take place. The entire area of the first gate has been taken over by armed policemen and Department of State Services (DSS).
Though the area is calm, workers and guests of lawmakers that came for the inauguration were seen in groups discussing the lock out.
No lawmakers is however sighted around the gate. It was however gathered that a meeting scheduled with President Muhammadu Buhari for 9. 00am todaymight be responsible.
Source: The Nation
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