President Muhammadu Buhari will
have nothing to do with the election of new leaders of the national assembly,
Ita Enang, a presidential aide, has said.
Enang, who is senior special
assistant to Buhari on national assembly matters (senate), said the president
will allow lawmakers in the ninth assembly do their work without any
interference.
The presidential aide said this
on Friday while briefing journalists in Abuja.
Some lawmakers, including Ovie
Omo-Agege, senator representing Delta central and Abdulmumin Jibrin, lawmaker
representing Kiru/Bebeji federal constituency of Kano in the house of reps, had
earlier said the president would determine who will become the next senate
president.
Enang, however, said the
president will respect the rule of law and allow the legislators do their work.
“The principle of President
Muhammadu Buhari is that each arm of government should function according to
what the constitution says which, is that every person in government should do
the right thing,” he said.
“He (Buhari) will not go beyond
what the constitution allows him and every arm of government should stick to
its constitutional responsibilities.”
Enang also urged the incoming
lawmakers to facilitate the passage of bills such as the 2019 budget.
According to him, “the budget of
the 64 different federal government owned agencies are still pending before the
national parliament.
“Unless the budgets of the different
agencies are considered and passed, we still have a lot to lose in terms of
opportunities for employment in those ministries and some capital projects
which would have increased government spending or the spending of the various
agencies and parastatals,” he said.
“The executive is ready with all
the system to come in and defend the budget. We have in advance, worked with
the committee on appropriation to determine a time table for the defence of
their budgets.”
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