Senate President Bukola Saraki has accused the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of treating the national assembly
with contempt.
He said this on Monday, while responding to the criticism of
Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The senate president also seized the opportunity to respond
to some of the allegations which Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, had
earlier mae.
Shehu had said Saraki was driving Nigeria to the edge and he
should be blamed for the delay in the passage of the budget for the 2019
elections.
But Saraki accused the presidency of not properly explaining
issues regarding the budget before sending it for approval.
He said the legislature would not accept being treated as
the “appendage of the executive.”
“No genuine leader of the legislature will be comfortable
that the presidency will simply write a terse letter to the national assembly
on key issues which the federal legislature is expected to later deliberate
upon and give its approval,” he said.
“The Buhari administration consistently treats the
legislature with contempt and acts as if the lawmaking body should be an
appendage of the executive. To me, this is unacceptable.”
Saraki also alleged that the administration has sidelined
key figures that helped it in gaining power.
He said: “In the same way, I find it very objectionable that
many stakeholders who worked strenuously to get the administration into office
have now been excluded in the government and not consulted on key decisions as
necessary and expected.
“In fact, some of them are treated as pariahs. A party that
ignores justice, equity and inclusion as basic pre-conditions for peace, unity
and stability cannot sustain its membership and leadership.”
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