As the out-going Speaker of the House of Representatives , Aminu Waziri
Tambuwal took his leave of the Green Chamber on Wednesday, he observed
that the frosty relationship between the executive arm and the
legislature diverted the House's attention and caused the nation to
cringe in shame on several occasions.
Tambuwal made the observation in a valedictory speech, titled: The
Power of Unity of Purpose, which he delivered as the House prepared to
wind down and he stepped down as the Speaker after his victory as the
Governor-elect of Sokoto State.
The out-going Speaker also boasted that the Seventh House of
Representatives, over which he presided, was not tainted by allegations
of corruption except in a couple of cases, three to be exact, out of
which only one is yet to be given a clean bill.
According to him, the attitude of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
as the ruling party, in trying to manipulate and stampede the
legislature into submission, forced it into a cul-de-sac and occasioned
the rancour between the two arms of government.
"I must say that the frosty relationship between the Executive and
Seventh House was an unnecessary distraction and a source of
embarrassment to the nation. It is unwarranted that a ruling party with
clear majority boxed itself into that situation. If the executive fails
to recognize the independence of the legislature and expects that it is
its rubber stamp then a frosty relation is bound to follow.
"I would strongly urge the incoming executive arm and indeed the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC) to avert this unwholesome situation,"
he cautioned.
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