The Acting President, Yemi
Osinbajo, on Tuesday asserted that it would be suicidal to threaten the
leadership of the National Assembly, made up of the President of the Senate,
Senator Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara.
Insisting that the two arms of
government have worked harmoniously in the past two years, Osinbajo maintained
that Nigerian media were only interested in the disagreements between them.
He said, “On a lighter note, I
don’t know the experiences of presiding officers from other nations present
here on the relationship between the Executive and the Legislature by the press
and the social media.
“Here in Nigeria, what makes news is conflict
between the Executive and the Legislature. The more dramatic it is, the more
newsworthy it becomes.
“If you follow things in the
media, you’ll be confronted by the exclusive and breaking news stories,
reporting several different issues of conflicts between the Executive and the
Legislature.
“I’ll pick just one. There’s one
of our popular newspapers that had the caption: ‘Acting President threatens
leadership of the National Assembly.’
“Now, if you see the combined
sizes of the Senate President and the Right Honourable Speaker compared to
mine, it’ll be suicidal to threaten either of them, let alone the two of them.”
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