The Senate on Wednesday, suspended plenary to enable the lawmakers to participate in campaigns for the general elections. President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan made the announcement at plenary.

Lawan said the senate would start its recess today (Wednesday) to enable senators to participate fully in the campaigns for their return or for their political parties.

He said that the elections of the National Assembly (members) together with that of the President, will take place on Feb. 25 and that it is their prayer and hope that those of them who are going to participate in the national assembly elections in the senate, that God Almighty will be on their side. He said this because there is a need to have those who will provide institutional memory to be around. The casualties have always been too heavy and too expensive for our country and for democracy in Nigeria. That is not to say that Nigerians should not have the way they want to elect their members of the national assembly. But it pays to retain parliamentarians if they are doing their job well.

This, Lawan said, helped the institution or the parliament in building and working for the people and for the country.

The senate president equally called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct very free, fair and credible elections and when the Senate comes back on Feb. 28, three days after the presidential and national assembly elections, the hope is that they come back and review the situation that will have taken place but they pray that what they review should all be on the positive side. And for one legislative week, they will be in the chamber to March 1 before they will also go for the gubernatorial and state Houses of Assembly campaigns and elections of March 11.