The Nigerian Senate has pushed again in opposition to criticism that it merely serves as a rubber stamp for the Tinubu administration, insisting its actions are at all times within the curiosity of the folks.
Talking on Come up Tv’s Prime Time on Thursday night time, June 12, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, stated the Nationwide Meeting is commonly unfairly focused by the general public.
“Like I normally say that we’re the tender goal of all people, we’re probably the most accessible by our constituents as a result of they’ll’t entry the chief the best way they’ll have entry to us,” he stated. “So positively, we’re the primary and final to them.”
Responding on to claims of being a rubber stamp legislature, Adaramodu made a metaphorical case.
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“Once more, when folks say that the Nationwide Meeting is rubber stamped, I at all times ask the query, even once you wish to do an authorized true copy of any doc with out the rubber stamp, it’s invalid,” he stated.
He added, “Even when the chief and judiciary does any course of, process, or programme, if the rubber stamp just isn’t there – it’s not genuine – so to that extent we rubber stamp every thing that’s good for Nigerians.”
Citing the Scholar Mortgage Invoice for instance, he questioned whether or not it might be affordable to reject a very good coverage simply to keep away from accusations of siding with the chief.
“Even when it’s not a literal rubber stamp they usually introduced pupil loans, are we saying we’d not stamp it as a result of we don’t need some folks to say not in a fisticuff with the chief?” he stated.
