Senators are currently holding an emergency closed-door session over the decision of the Federal Ministry of Labour to proceed with the recruitment of the 774, 000 workers across the country.
National Assembly recently suspended the Public Works Programme following a spat between its committee on Labour and the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Kayamo.
The Senators had accused Keyamo of hijacking the recruitment exercise from the National Directorate of Employment, which got N52billion approval to implement the programme.
But on Tuesday, Keyamo told journalists that President Muhammadu Buhari had given him a fresh directive to proceed with the recruitment process, inspite of the opposition of the National Assembly.
On resumption of plenary on Wednesday, the Senate President called for a closed session to discuss the development, shutting out the media from covering the session.