By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Joseph Erunke

ABUJA — AS the senate resumes plenary today after the Christmas and New Year recess, deliberations will be centered on the 2015 Appropriation Bill, Constitutional Amendment and the Petroleum Industrial Bill, PIB, among other items.

But there are fears that the senate may suffer from lack of quorum as majority of the senators that picked tickets to contest the February 28 elections, could be on the field for their campaigns.
Information obtained from the Senate indicated that the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, and the Fiscal Strategy Paper, FSP, would be deliberated today to make way for the consideration of the 2015 Appropriation Bill tomorrow.

The notice also indicated that the report of the  PIB pending at the National Assembly would be laid on the floor of the senate on Thursday before the senate would embark on the election recess.

A principal officer who declined to comment on the items stated that he would not do so because there would likely be lack of quorum as both the Senate President, David Mark and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, would be on the field to campaign for their re-election which remained just about 30 days.