In a statement on Facebook, Onochie said Buhari would not behave like former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan amid the face-off between the executive and the legislature.
She said: “I understand when well-meaning Nigerians call on President Buhari to ‘descend’ on the National Assembly, the Senate in particular. After all, that’s what Presidents Jonathan and Obasanjo did.
“With all due respect, it would appear, and was very clear, even to the blind that what Nigeria had under President Obasanjo was democracy tinged with autocratic tendencies.
“President Buhari is a man of honour. He has vowed to give Nigerians a democratic leadership and he will not be pressured into breaking that vow.”
Onochie said Nigerians should descend on the Senate, instead of asking the President to do so.
“This idea of wanting our President to break constitutional provisions that recognise separation of powers is nothing but a total cop out on the side of Nigerians. We must have democracy in a democratic setting.
“Nigerians did it in January of 2012. That was when we recovered the executive arm of our government. The elections of 2015 merely confirmed that Nigerians actually recovered their government.”
Buhari on Wednesday, set up a committee, whose objective is to resolve the perennial rift between the executive and the legislature.
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With due respect, I don't agree with what you said. The American democracy Nigeria is copying has evolved over the years. It was not like this in the nineteen or twenty centuries. Therefore, Nigerian democracy must develop too. You can only give respect to those who deserve it. We Nigerians are very corrupt and most people in the position of leadership or authority are very corrupt including the National and House assemblies. They are carefully sabotaging the good will and leadership of president Buhari. Mark my words, worst things are yet to happen. If Mr. Buhari has stood his ground, all these rubbish would not be happening. It is unfortunate, the elites are yet to see a young, trustworthy and dynamic Nigeria to lead the Nation.
ReplyDeleteYou are right.The have to be dealt with for things to move in Nigeria. Without that, the National Assembly will even get more stubborn and worse. They want a free hand to run their corruption deals because of that they will continues sabotaging the executive to turn the Nigerian's mind off them. The irony of everything is that they are stealing from Nigerian's and the youths are supporting them, clapping for them and hailing them.
DeleteEven the youths don't want Nigeria to get better, the want the present administration to fail not knowing that they are the ones it will effect too.
Look at the kind of people Nigerian's has as lawmakers, ex-419ers and ex-drug dealers that came to National Assembly to hide to loots Nigeria.
Let the youths keep praising them for collecting jombo salaries and allowances for doing nothing.
Since 1999 we had democracy what has the National Assembly done to make Nigeria better.
Nigerian will even get worse because this kind of democracy is not favourable to Nigerian's, we need to rewrite our system of Government. Wipe out this democracy and start allover again with a new constitution. Believe me the system of government we are running is making us get more corrupt.
You are a stupid woman,you don't know your left from your right. The other day you where casting stones on the National Assembly. Today you are insulting our past President of dignity OBJ and GEJ can never be compared to this stack illiterate,who with his shallow thinking has brought Nigerian the worst hardship in decades.I don't know how he even got people like you employed around him to make thing worst. Your brain is wet and dull. Tell your boss to learn form Asiwaju.
ReplyDeleteYou will be the one to tell your ex supporters of conspiracy of silence over corruption in their time as leaders of this nation. Except we mistake effect for cause. If not, they caused it and the effects are what we suffering today. God bless Nigeria
DeleteMy dear is not about your President being illiterate or not. The Nigerian political system makes its possible for our politicians to be corrupt. The democratic system is not for stubborn people like Nigerian's. The President cannot do anything, Nigeria is being run like business, everything depending on oil. The National Assembly collects half of the federal allocations with you and me seeing no any impact of it on Nigerian's.
DeleteWe copied democracy and turned it the way it will suit our corruption system. Nigerian democracy is corrupt from head to toe. We need overhauling.
Mark my words today, we will never get better with our kind of democracy no matter who is at the top.
Our system enriched the Politicians while the masses suffers.
The system of government we operate in Nigeria was build on corruption because the think Nigeria has money so let them take care of themselves first before the masses and governance.
Woman, you need education. Did you need to refer - in this case - to past presidents? What are you trying to achieve by so doing?
ReplyDeleteDon't you believe, as expected, that Buhari learned from the experience of your reference? Let me be clear, you are unfit for the position you are occupying.
But PMB supposed to take deceive action on national Assambly, because we Nigerians dissave ion hand for thinkings to move in normal way
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