Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has urged the National
Assembly to listen to the calls for the restructuring of Nigeria and take
responsibility towards the effect.
He said the National Assembly has the powers and moral
authority to respond to the calls if the Presidency is not doing so.
Soyinka said this while speaking in an interview on AIT’s Kakaaki
programme on Wednesday.
He said, “The Presidency is saying it’s not my
responsibility. On the other hand, the National Assembly keeps saying it wants
the President to take action. When that happens, why doesn’t the National
Assembly say “fine, we take this as our responsibility, we are obliged to the
people who elected us here, the shout is heard even by the deaf today that this
nation must restructure, and if that has to be done through the constitution,
we are now going to face this as one of our major tasks” and then lead the
Presidency on its own?”
He continued, “If the Presidency is not responding, then the
National Assembly has the powers and the moral authority to respond to the
desire of the populace.”
On why the National Assembly has been reluctant to take up
the leadership opportunity, Soyinka said, “Very often, they are struggling for
those various committees where I think all the goodies are shared, so they are
compromised. But when I speak about this, I’m not speaking about the entirety.
But unfortunately, there are those who are purely for their own interest and
who make compromises with the Executives simply because they want to fulfil
their own personal interest.”
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