Senator Ovie Omo-Agege representing Delta central, will be expelled from the senate. The Detail reports that the senate committee on ethics and privileges had recommended his expulsion from the senate, and his prosecution. On April 18, Omo-Agege was alleged to have led thugs into the senate chamber and seized the mace. 
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege representing Delta central, will be expelled from the senate. According to sources, the Detail reports of the senate committee on ethics and privileges had recommended his expulsion from the senate, and his prosecution. On April 18, Omo-Agege was alleged to have led thugs into the senate chamber and seized the mace. He was said to have led the thugs into the chamber while a plenary session was in progress. The thugs allegedly assaulted some national assembly staff before getting away with the mace. The mace was later recovered under a bridge in Abuja. The lawmaker had been, a week before the incident, suspended for alleged anti-legislature claims. Omo-Agege had alleged that the election sequence re- ordering bill was targeted at President Muhammadu Buhari. The senator was arrested but released a few hours after the attack. Omo-Agege, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), when expelled will be the first senator to be so removed in 12 legislative years.
Meanwhile, the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakr Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday inaugurated the joint ad hoc committee of the National Assembly to probe the invasion of Senate wing of the National Assembly and the stealing of the Red Chambers mace.
Sources hinted The Eagle Online that the conclusion of the work of the probe panel will see to the expulsion of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from the 8th Senate.
The Senate’s spokesman, Senator Abdullahi Sabi, had in statement indicted Omo-Agege over the stolen mace and invasion of the chamber.
In his inauguration address, Saraki stated that those who attacked the Senate on April 18, 2018 were led by a serving senator.
He said: “The events of the 18th of April, 2018, will go down as one of the darkest days of our democracy. The precincts of the National Assembly is not just a place where the National Assembly meets, it is the symbol of our liberty and freedom from autocracy and the base of our democracy.
However, The Eagle Online reliably gathered that the inauguration is just a formality as the Senate leadership has concluded plans to expel Omo-Agege from the 8th Senate.
The Senate had on April 12, 2018 suspended Omo-Agege for 90 legislative days for dragging the chamber to court over the amendment to the Electoral Act 2010, which seeks to reshuffle the sequence of polls during a general election.
