National Assembly Official Slaps Ekiti Senator
There was drama on Monday at the new wing of the Senate complex in Abuja after a National Assembly official physically assaulted the senate deputy minority whip, Abiodun Olujimi.
The incident happened shortly before the commencement of a public hearing of the committee on petroleum (downstream).
Trouble started when an official of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) rode in the same elevator with the lawmaker.
Lifts in the assembly are installed in pairs, one reserved for lawmakers (Senators and House of Representatives members), and another for other users.
The senator was on her way to the petroleum committee public hearing while the PASAN member, who was not immediately identified, was to attend a meeting of his association.
The PASAN meeting was in preparation for a strike which the association is about to commence.
A witness said when the lawmaker saw the PASAN staff in the elevator reserved for lawmakers, she demanded to know why he used the same lift with her.
The witness said the lawmaker directed her aide to “slap” the legislative official, who immediately responded in kind.
The PASAN staff however slapped the senator and not her aide.
I think the senator has not done well by asking her aids to slap someone in an elevator reserved for senator or representative. Are they not those who voted them in as senator or representative? What does it cost the senator to allow the sleeping dog lies as a role model. That you are a senator or representative does not make you too important than any other Nigerians it is just a privilege.