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Why We Are Called Your Rubber Stamp, Lawan Tells Buhari
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has told President Muhammadu Buhari why many Nigerians mock the 9th National Assembly led by him as his rubber stamp.
Ahmad Lawan spoke at a banquet for the visiting president in Damataru, Yobe State on Monday night.
Against the background of claims that the Lawan led National Assembly is a rubber stamp of President Muhammadu Buhari with everything brought to the legislature passed, Lawan insisted that all that the president brought were in the good interest of the country.
He said:
“Your Excellency, today by the Grace of God, it is almost three and half years that I have been working with you as Senate President.
“In all my years in the National Assembly, I have never worked with any President who never asked that he wanted things done a certain way but I want to admit here that Mr President, you have never asked me to do anything. You believe we should do what is best for our country.
“And when I said that we will continue to work with the executive arm of government, ensuring that the national interest is always our guide and focus, our opposition took me out of context.
Lawan noting the reference of the 9th National Assembly as a rubber stamp, he told Buhari:
“Some of them started writing that we are rubber stamp, that whatever is brought to National Assembly will be approved. I want to say here, that President Muhammadu Buhari never asked anything that is not in the national interest.
“And at the risk of being misquoted by the press, we all know who our President is. Before he became President and while he is still President. Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria is his focus, his concern. And that is why we believe that we should continue to work with him. We should support him.
“And in the ninth National Assembly, we have supported the executive arm of government fully because we believe this is one President, one administration, one government that has come to deliver Nigeria, from what happened in 16 years, from mis-governance by, of course, the PDP.
“Today, Mr President, I am proud to say that we have achieved so much working with you in the ninth National Assembly.
“We have passed the most difficult Bills, we have passed the most complicated legislations. This is because you gave us all the support that we needed to do our work in the National Assembly.”
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