A former National Vice Chairman North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has lamented that the current National Assembly is not representing the interests of Nigerians.
Lukman, in a statement issued Tuesday, said part of the
challenge of the country’s democracy is that the two chambers of the National
Assembly are only accountable to themselves.
He noted that the Public Accounts Committees in both
chambers are expected to oversight management of funds allocated to the
National Assembly.
The former APC chieftain stressed that somehow, these are
issues that contribute to the current reality whereby the National Assembly,
its leadership and members lost the moral authority to regulate the conduct of
the executive arm of government.
He said with that, they function practically at the mercy of
the President and members of the executive arm, almost as if they are employees
of the executive.
According to him, Using all these incentives, the President
and members of the Executive arm seamlessly turned on the ‘gaslight’, which
leaves members with no option but to believe and approve every proposal
submitted even when they are injurious to public interests. Having served as
the machinery that hurt the people, they become liabilities and therefore
eventually got discarded.
Lukman said: “The point is, Nigerian democracy, as it is, is
not functionally representing the interest of citizens largely because the
parliament represented by the two chambers of the National Assembly – Senate
and House of Representatives – have involuntarily submitted themselves to the
narcissistic control of the president.
“Until and unless the parliament can free itself from the
president, it will almost be impossible for it to develop the capacity of
defending and protecting the interests of Nigerians.”
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