The plenary sitting of the House of Representatives has commenced, Tuesday with only 18 out of the 360 members, thereby raising questions about the 25 per cent needed to form a quorum.

The sitting, which kicked off at exactly 11:30 am, is being presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun (APC, Osun).

The absence of House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC, Lagos) also made Lasun to nominate Bashir Babale (APC, Kano) as an interim House Leader for the commencement of proceedings.

Lasun also explained how certain misrepresentation of figures in the 2019 budget has delayed debates on the Appropriation Bill.

“One of the reasons why we did not start debates on the 2019 budget last week was the discovery of slight errors in reporting the figures contained in the budget.

“For instance, the N492 billion for statutory transfers does not correspond with the wordings in the budget but that has been corrected.

“The same applies for the N2 trillion for capital expenditure, which has also been corrected,” Lasun stated.