The Senate and the House of Representatives (NASS) have cut short their resumption date, with a new date fixed for today May 28 to enable the lawmakers consider the reviewed 2020 budget.

The new date, as against the former June 2nd resumption date, would enable the lawmakers to resume after the Sallah break, to consider President Muhammadu Buhari’s Appropriation (Amendment) Bill 2020.

It would be recalled that both chambers of the National Assembly had on May 20 adjourned plenary to Tuesday, June 2 to enable Senators and members of the House of Representatives to observe the Eid-el-Fitr Sallah festival.

The Clerk to the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, in a statement in Abuja, said that all Senators and members of the House of Representatives are expected to resume.

Recall that the President of the Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan, had while adjourning plenary session last Tuesday, said that the Senate was prepared to cut short its break to consider any urgent communication from Mr. President, especially the revised 2020 budget.

The revised 2020 Budget was submitted to both chambers of the National Assembly by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Babajide Omoworare, and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Hon. Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub, last Wednesday.