VIDEO: Senate sitting exposes to setback as blackout hits National Assembly complex
.... Breakfast na National cake, netizen reacts
Senators during sitting experienced blackout as they waited for electricity to be restored to the National Assembly complex before the commencement of the plenary.
The event which happened on tuesdays was captured in a video, 
revealing the red chamber in partial darkness circulated on social media, drawing reactions from netizens.
According to Channels TV, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, later commenced plenary after power was restored some 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.
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.”
The PUNCH reported in February that 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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