The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Lasun Yussuff made this announcement in Abuja on Thursday.
Lasun said the agenda will primarily be the presidential budget request to fund INEC’s operations for the 2019 polls.
The National Assembly had been on recess since July 24, and they were expected to resume in September.
However, the need to attend to some issues that were pending before they proceeded on leave seems to compel them to reconvene earlier than scheduled.
The pending matters include: priority attention to the supplementary budget for 2019 general election, and the confirmation of some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees — the Chairman of the Board of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, Dr. Muiz Banire.
The leadership of the National Assembly had attempted to meet on Tuesday, but security operatives from the Department of State Services, acting on the order of their erstwhile Director-General, Lawal Daura, mounted a blockade, preventing the lawmakers from gaining entrance and this led to the cancellation of the meeting.
The action resulted into the sacking of Daura by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, who condemned the siege as an affront to democracy.
