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Tinubu Gives National Assembly Members Palliative Items for Festive Season

President Bola Tinubu has directed the distribution of food items to members of the National Assembly for their constituents.

VOP News gathered that the president ordered the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, to provide the lawmakers with the food items.

Confirming the distribution on Thursday via his official X handle, presidential aide, Dada Olusegun, said the Senators and members of the House of Representatives have started taking stock of the Federal Government’s palliative items for their constituents.

He said the food items are part of efforts to ease life for all Nigerians, adding that each member of the lower chamber received items worth N100m, while Senatorial constituencies got palliative items worth N200m.

VOP Lagos

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