Godswill Akpabio, senator
representing Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district, has asked Senate
President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of
representatives, to resign.
Speaking to reporters after President
Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2019 budget, the lawmaker said the two presiding
officers have become minority leaders.
He said the All Progressives
Congress (APC), the party which he joined in August, has majority lawmakers in
both chambers of the national assembly.
Asked to comment on the inability
of Saraki and Dogara to control the lawmakers who disrupted the president’s
speech, Akpabio said: “Yes, they couldn’t talk today because they are minority
leaders. They are not even supposed to talk in the first place. They should
therefore do the needful and resign honourably or face being booted out of
office,” he said.
Anti-Buhari lawmakers embarrassed
the president while he was addressing a joint session of the national assembly
on Wednesday.
They had accused him to telling
lies and spreading propaganda.
But Akpabio described the
presentation as a success, saying all that Buhari had for each region in the
budget were amazing.
“It was a very good budget
presentation. It captures all facets of our national life and expectations of
many Nigerians,” he said.
He commended the president,
adding that the budget would revive the decayed infrastructure in the country.
“The good thing about today’s
budget presentation is that there is hope that there is going to be what I will
call a rejuvenation in terms of infrastructural decay in Nigeria,” he said.
”I believe Nigerians are very
proud today that they have a government, they have a president who is very
determined to change not just the mental psyche of the Nigerian child but to
change the face of infrastructure in the country.
“You would have noticed something
about President Buhari quite unlike what happened in the past when we used to
have so much of recurrent expenses sometimes up to 70 or 78 per cent.
”There was never a time under the
PDP administration that we have more than 23 per cent on capital expenses, but
look at the number of capital projects he rolled out today.
”That never happened before and
that was why almost all the infrastructure died and we did not even have money
for maintenance of infrastructure.”
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