9th Senate: Lawan Performs First Plenary Assignment As President, Swears In Okorocha - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 13, 2019
Senator Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday, performed his firstplenary assignment as the new Nigeria’s Senate President, swearing in Sen.Rochas Okorocha, representing Imo West Senatorial District.
The event took place immediate after the Senate hadtaken the prayers, approval of votes and proceedings at plenary in the redchamber in Abuja
Lawan and Ovie Omo-Agege were on Tuesday elected bythe lawmakers as senate president and deputy senate president respectively.
However, the name of Okorocha, the immediate-pastgovernor of Imo was missing from the senators-elect from the state as a resultof the Independent National Electrical Commission (INEC)’s inability to givehim a certificate of return.
At Thursday:s plenary, Okorocha took the Oath ofOffice at the chamber at about 10:39am.
He then advanced to the senate president to have ahandshake after signing the necessary documents.