{"id":166774,"date":"2025-06-13T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights"},"modified":"2025-06-14T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:44:34","slug":"dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights","title":{"rendered":"Dickson Critiques Tinubu&#8217;s Speech on Senatorial Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The lawmaker representing Bayelsa West, Senator Seriake Dickson has picked some holes in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s speech during the joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday to commemorate the 2025 Democracy Day.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker, who addressed journalists shortly after the president\u2019s address, alleged that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, violated his constitutional right during the event.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Akpabio rushed through President Tinubu\u2019s letters to the National Assembly and ignored his intervention, stating that \u201cthat\u2019s not how democracy works. That\u2019s how military regimes operate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senator lamented that Akpabio \u201ccompletely disregarded\u201d his right as a Senator to \u201craise a constitutional issue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some stakeholders have tackled the president for ignoring the pains of Nigerians but focused on politics.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations of many Nigerians were dashed as the president\u2019s speech allegedly failed to capture important issues bedeviling the nation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a cross section of Nigerians, the president was more interested in mocking opposition parties than addressing the wanton killings going on across the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The lawmaker representing Bayelsa West, Senator Seriake Dickson has picked some holes in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s speech during the joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday to commemorate the 2025 Democracy Day. The lawmaker, who addressed journalists shortly after the president\u2019s address, alleged that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, violated his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":166773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[621,254,8738,945],"class_list":["post-166774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akpabio","tag-nigeria","tag-seriake-dickson","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dickson Critiques Tinubu&#039;s Speech on Senatorial Rights - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Bayelsa West, Senator Seriake Dickson has picked some holes in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s speech ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dickson Critiques Tinubu&#039;s Speech on Senatorial Rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The lawmaker representing Bayelsa West, Senator Seriake Dickson has picked some holes in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s speech ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-13T21:53:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-14T10:44:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749842725.358332.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Dickson Critiques Tinubu&#8217;s Speech on Senatorial Rights\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-13T21:53:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-14T10:44:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749842725.358332.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akpabio\",\"Nigeria\",\"Seriake Dickson\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dickson-critiques-tinubus-speech-on-senatorial-rights\",\"name\":\"Dickson Critiques Tinubu's Speech on Senatorial Rights - 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