Vanguard
8 January 2012
Subtle presures by Presidency officials on the leadership of the House of Representatives to defer today’s emergency sitting on religious sentiments have been rebuffed.
The rebuff by the House leadership came in the wake of the revelation that the Senate buckled under the same pressure after it was agreed by the leadership of the two houses to convene extraordinary sittings in the light of the multiple crises facing the nation.
Today’s extraordinary session of the House is to deliberate on the removal of the controversial subsidy on the price of petrol and the declaration of emergency rule in four states of the country.
In formation made available by a very strategic leader in the House suggests that today’s session would “be with a view to ensuring that a middle ground is reached by both labour and the Federal Government.”
The House leader went on: “As it is today, the position of labour and government are mutually exclusive, very extreme on each side and that is not what Nigeria
“For every day that this country is shut down, we lose money, huge sums of money and the economy is not in a position to absorb such a shock now.
“That is why we believe that we owe it a duty to all Nigerians to ensure that we sit and find a middle ground. Our pursuit is to ensure that we mediate in the best way possible and we believe that God will help us achieve that.
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