Senators faced a blackout on Tuesday as they waited for power to be restored to the National Assembly building before the start of the session.
A video of the red chamber in partial darkness surfaced on social media, eliciting responses from netizens.
According to Channels TV, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, later began plenary once power was restored a few minutes later.
Akpabio apologised for the outage and the heat in the Chamber, disclosing that about nine offices still experienced outage as work was ongoing to rectify the situation.
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Commenting about the video on X, a user, #sweetheartadecx, wrote, “Breakfast na National cake. They should also feel what Nigerians are passing through.”
Another user, #KinginglyGeorge wrote, “#aedcelectricity if they haven’t paid their bills do not restore anything… they should go home.”
Recall that in February, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company threatened that it will disconnect electricity in the Presidential Villa and 86 Federal Government’s Ministry Department and Agencies over N47,195 billion outstanding debts as of December 2023.
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