The National Assembly has been attacked by suspected men of the suspended Senator Ovie Omo Agege early this morning Wednesday 18th April, 2018.
The thugs who were lead by the suspended Senator, Omo Agege APC Delta State central entered the building while plenary was ongoing presided by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
It was gathered that the thugs were in their numbers about 15 of them were matching into the senate house with suspended Senator Omo Agege but 8 of the thugs entered into the chamber while 7 of them were outside.
Vanguard reports according to a source it was revealed that Senator Omo Agege went straight to the chamber, sergeart-at- Arms tried to stop him from entering but they were pushed out, this is as the thugs started shouting "Nigeria belongs to all of us, we are all Nigerians, We have come to bring in our Senator it have his seat as our Senator."
The source also stated that immediately Senator Omo Agege went straight to meet the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu while presiding looking at him eye to eye it was that moment one of the Senators thugs took the mace.
It was also gathered immediately the incident took place some of the Senators ran into the tea room and the thugs beat up the security and Sergeart at Arm and went away with the mace.
Reports also have it that two of the thugs wore brown safari cloths ran out of the main entrance to the Senate lobby and ran into a waiting black Prado Jeep.
Meanwhile after about forty minutes of the commotion the Senate resumed plenary by 12:10pm having gotten another Mace.
Speaking at the resumed sitting the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu stated that the Senate will get to the root cause of the problem and also find a way out.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu also stated that, the present 8th Senate will not be intimidated, adding that as law makers, they will address all the issues in the Order Paper even it means staying till 6pm.
Recal that the Senator representing Delta Central, Senator Omo Agege was suspended last week Wednesday for ninety Legislative days following the Senators kick against the new sequence of election adoption by the upper Chambers which was later alleged to have been targeted at President Buhari 2019 election ambition.