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Sour grapes. Mr. Ex-Speaker why did you not speak out on this issue in the last two years?
Mr. Ex-Speaker would you have made the same accusation if you had won re-election?
The answers to the above questions is NO. You were too busy playing party politics to complain. Now that you have been outplayed by members of your own party, you resort to crying.
Well, Mr. Ex-Speaker you do not have my cshoulder to cry on. You had your chance to impeach the Ape Obasanjo but you dropped the ball. So this is the result of your failure, you get what you deserve. --------------------------------------------------
Na’Abba bows out, blames Ogbeh for Executive/Legislature frictions By Uchenna Awom
Daily Independent, Abuja
“Honourable members, our job is done. It is sunset which will usher in new beginnings. The Honourable Speaker, as well as all of you, has played his role. We take our exits to make way for new players, new scenes and new roles. If there is time yet, we shall meet again”.
With these words, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba, the second speaker of the first House of Representatives in the Fourth Republic and members of that session finally bowed out of the lawmaking business yesterday in Abuja after four years.
Addressing a well attended session, Na’Abba also said in his valedictory speech that the constant frictions between the executive and legislature in the later part of the session should be blamed on Mr. Audu Ogbeh, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ogbeh, he said, failed to encourage, through the instrumentality of his office and the tenets of political party democracy, the much- desired harmony between the executive and legislature.
According to him, since Ogbeh assumed office, only two meetings were held between the two arms and that the meetings resulted from problems.
This, he said, was unlike what obtained during the chairmanship of Chief Solomon Lar and Chief Barnabas Gemade.
Na’Abba said it was important to note that the frictions between the Legislature and the Executive were both historical and institutional and might be inevitable in a system where the separation of powers was the major plank of the constitution. His words: “No matter the efforts at personal friendship, mutual respects and party affiliations, so long as the legislature has to perform its role properly, there would be frictions. These disagreements may be fundamental and may have to do with the constitution.”
Na’Abba averred, however, that for the country to achieve development, there should be closer partnership between the legislature and executive. “This partnership must not, however, degenerate to a kind of collaboration to subvert the people”.
To do this, he said, was to formalise a platform for consultation. Citing example with the Second Republic, Na’Abba said the then NPN set up a regular caucus which met every Monday morning to consult on business of government. In that caucus, he added, were senior party executives, the President, the Vice-President, secretary to the government and senior leaders of the legislature.
This regular meetings, he observed, built confidence among arms of government and helped the process of information. The House, Na’Abba insisted, never had the luxury of this kind of forum in the last four years.
“For the two arms and the party to work together, something close to this model should be established as a matter of need”, he said.
Na’Abba, dressed in white flowing garment and intermittently applauded by his colleagues ,used the opportunity to hand down apology to perceived aggrieved people.
He said: “May I appeal to all those who were aggrieved by our actions that whatever perceived ‘wrong’ we might have done, to be rest assured that we did so in our judgment, in the best interest of the country”.
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All our politicians make mistakes, but we hope they will soon stop making them.
It is just like the peaceful protest against rigged elections, neither the court nor the police has the right to deter Nigerians from protesting against election rigging, which in reality is a crime. The court or the police cannot defend criminal offenses.
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