The lawmaker representing Borno South South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has lamented what he called the diminishing role of the National Assembly.
This was as he alleged that the red chamber of the country’s
National Assembly has become an approving institution offering unquestioned
support to the executive.
Ndume stated this during an interview on Arise Television,
expressing worry that the Senate is no longer fulfilling its duty as a
deliberative chamber.
“It has become less democratic, and it is very unfortunate.
If you look at what the National Assembly historically is built on, the Senate,
particularly, is supposed to be a house of deliberation where people will deliberate
on policies, actions and spending of government.
“We’re not doing that anymore; we’re now more of an
approving institution, just giving necessary and unnecessary support to the
executive.
“The division of executive, legislature and judiciary is no
longer there; government, to an extent, now has been personalised and
privatised,” he said.
The longest serving senator also said he was worried that as
a senator, he is not abreast of events happening in the chamber.
When asked, Ndume described the withdrawal of Burkina Faso,
Mali, and Niger from ECOWAS as a major diplomatic failure, particularly for
President Bola Tinubu, who recently handed over leadership of the bloc to
President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone.
He suggested that the intervention of elder statesmen like
Muhammadu Buhari, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Yakubu Gowon, and
Abdulsalami Abubakar might have helped prevent the exit of the three West
African nations.
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