Africa Press-Nigeria:
The National Assembly has expressed reservations over recent conducts of some government officials in the Executive arm, whose behaviours the leadership of the Legislature considered uncooperative.
The Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan, expressed the reservation while speaking to State House Correspondents after a closed-doors meeting with the President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Thursday.
Senator Lawan, who was in the company of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, noted that the current National Assembly has had a cordial relationship with the Executive arm, citing the atmosphere provided by the President as reason.
He also noted that the cordial relationship between the Executive and Legislative arms had been particularly forged so that the current government could better deliver quality leadership to Nigerians.
He however said though the National Assembly would not continue to tolerate indiscrete attitudinal displays from appointees of President Buhari, the legislature would not define it’s relationship with the President by the misdemeanor of one appointee.
It would be recalled that the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Barr Festus Keyamo, recently had hot exchanges with members of the National Assembly over the administration of the 774,000 recruitment for special public works. A similar scenario had also occurred between the National Assembly and officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
“If you are an appointee of the President, you are supposed to be reflective of the attitude of the President towards the National Assembly but the National Assembly will take exception to any attitude or disposition that is not in support of the harmony in the relationship between the two arms of government.
“I think the relationship between this National Assembly and the Executive arm of government, particularly Mr. President, is beyond one employee of the President.
