{"id":66653,"date":"2019-05-14T21:09:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=66653"},"modified":"2019-05-14T21:09:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:09:01","slug":"our-expectations-of-a-new-national-assembly-and-its-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/our-expectations-of-a-new-national-assembly-and-its-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Expectations Of A New National Assembly And Its Leadership."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-3538148963380544606\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">In a few weeks\u2019time, a new National Assembly will be inaugurated to<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">steer the legislative ship of the nation for the next four years. With<br \/>\nthe inauguration will emerge a new NASS leadership that is expected to<br \/>\npoint the way the new National Assembly will chart especially in<br \/>\ncomplementing the efforts of the Buhari regime to take Nigeria to a<br \/>\nNext Level. Presently, the front runners of the race for the NASS<br \/>\nleadership are Senator Ahmed Lawan for the Senate presidency and Femi<br \/>\nGbajabiamilafor the Speakership of the House of Representatives. They<br \/>\nare front runners because they are the nominees of the ruling All<br \/>\nProgressives Congress which has a commanding lead in both chambers of<br \/>\nthe National Assembly. What more, President Muhammadu Buhari has<br \/>\nendorsed the candidature of both legislators, which stands them in<br \/>\nvery commanding stead to head the next NASS.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the party, there are faint discordant tunes as both Senator<br \/>\nAli Ndume who conspired with the out-going Senate President, Bukola<br \/>\nSaraki to steal the Senate presidency four years ago and who<br \/>\neventually fell out with Saraki, as well as senators Danjuma Goje who<br \/>\nchairs the out-going Senate\u2019s powerful appropriations committee, have<br \/>\nindicated interest in leading the Senate despite the party choice of<br \/>\nLawan. Also, the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives,<br \/>\nYakubu Dogara, who in cahoots with the minority PDP and some members<br \/>\nof theHouse of Representatives, cornered the speakership last four<br \/>\nyears is said to nurse a far-flung but surreptitious ambition to<br \/>\nreturn. What more, Dogara is pursuing his nearly impossible ambition<br \/>\nunder his new party, PDP which is an insignificant minority in the<br \/>\nHouse of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike what happened in 2015 however, there is no expectation of any<br \/>\nmajor upsets from the APC stand on the NASS leadership. Unlike in<br \/>\n2015, the party now has a more regimented and disciplined leadership<br \/>\nto see through the interests of the party and instill coherence among<br \/>\nmembers. Again, the presidency that maintained a na\u00efve attitude of<br \/>\nnon-interest in NASS leadership in 2015 now has full interests and<br \/>\nthese are expressed in the public commitment of President Buhari to<br \/>\nsupport the Lawan and Gbajabiamila aspirations. Today, the party is<br \/>\nmore coherent and purposeful in pursuit of its interests unlike in<br \/>\n2015 where therioting ambition of many members allowed the PDP to sow<br \/>\ndisharmony among the APC legislators to allow a Saraki and Dogara who,<br \/>\nto all intents and purposes, were favorably disposed to the pursuit of<br \/>\nPDP interests, steal the leadership of NASS. Most importantly, the<br \/>\nexperience of the past four years where the NASS leadership stood<br \/>\nsolidly in contradistinction to the executive and the party under<br \/>\nwhich platform they rode to power is enough to steel the APC to make<br \/>\nvery good use of its majority status and disallow any efforts to<br \/>\nrelive the harrowing experiences with the Saraki-led NASS.<\/p>\n<p>So, the grand expectations of Nigerians on a new NASS and its<br \/>\nleadership are the complementary role they stand to play to drive the<br \/>\nvisions of the government, not through constituting mindless<br \/>\nobstructions as happened in the past four years but through a<br \/>\ncooperative nexus that will further the ends of democracy and good<br \/>\ngovernance for the Nigerian nation. Simply put, Nigerians are not<br \/>\nexpecting a replay of the cantankerous squabbles of the past four<br \/>\nyears where ambitious efforts to drive the development of the country<br \/>\nand the dividends of democracy were arrested by a NASS that was in<br \/>\nclear pursuit of selfish partisan interests that were contrary to<br \/>\nthose of the executive.\u00a0 Nigerians are therefore expecting a NASS that<br \/>\nwill readily accede to the requests of the executive to promote bills<br \/>\nthat seek the rapid economic growth of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In the past four years, we experienced how the Saraki NASS<br \/>\nsadistically shrimped ambitious developmental budgets to smithereens<br \/>\njust to pursue the desire to see the government fail. We saw how the<br \/>\nyearly budgets were shredded so badly to have insignificant impacts on<br \/>\nthe nation, contrary to their designed impacts. We saw a situation in<br \/>\nthe past four years where the NASS became a theater for the promotion<br \/>\nof narrow, corruption-induced constituency projects over and above<br \/>\nambitious capital projects that stand to drive the economy and impact<br \/>\non millions of Nigerians. We saw where yearly budgets for critical<br \/>\nroad infrastructures, power, rail, health, water, social investment<br \/>\nprojects were rubbished to make way for such constituency projects<br \/>\nlike provision for grinding machines, solar street lights, and<br \/>\npurchase of motorcycles. We saw where such budgets for the second<br \/>\nNiger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Road, Enugu Airport expansion, Mambila<br \/>\nPowerPlant, standard gauge rail lines were torn to pieces while<br \/>\nnondescript projects in remote areas that hardly have an impact on<br \/>\nmany people were promoted and stolen into the national budget because<br \/>\nthey are constituency projects for members of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In the past four years, we saw how NASS became an absurd theater where<br \/>\nbudgets were padded to reflect the corrupt self-serving desires of<br \/>\nNASS members. We saw how NASSdistorted national budgets to suit their<br \/>\nnarrow whims, where NASS rewrote the budget according to their<br \/>\ncaprices and made the task of pursuing national growth through the<br \/>\ninstrumentality of the budget practically impossible. In the past four<br \/>\nyears, we saw how yearly budgets became avenues for muscle-flexing, we<br \/>\nsaw how budgets were unnecessarily delayed and made to travel to and<br \/>\nfro between the executive and the legislature. These ego rips were<br \/>\nmeant to pursue vain glory while the interests of the people for which<br \/>\nbudgets were made, suffered serious harms. Let us recall how Saraki,<br \/>\nduring his ill-fated campaign for the presidential ticket of PDP<br \/>\nboasted that he cut down the budgets for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway<br \/>\nfor no just reasons!<\/p>\n<p>So in a new NASS and NASS leadership, the expectation of Nigerians is<br \/>\nthat a NASS leadership that is less acrimonious and combative will<br \/>\nserve the general interests of Nigerians where the past NASS and its<br \/>\nleadership bickered and threw wedges. In going for the Lawan and<br \/>\nGbajabiamila choice, it is obvious that APC is driven by the desire to<br \/>\navoid the regrettable impediments of the last NASS that blocked rather<br \/>\nthan enhanced the government\u2019s drive to improve the lots of the<br \/>\npeople. The bitter experience the Buhari government faced with having<br \/>\na NASS that constituted itself to an obstructive opposition to the<br \/>\ngovernment must have forced the government from its na\u00efve shell of<br \/>\ndisinterestedness to take an active interest in who emerges the<br \/>\nleaders of NASS in a few weeks\u2019time. That is right and proper.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations of Nigerians in a new NASS and its leadership is a<br \/>\nnational assembly that will assist the executive to deliver on its<br \/>\nelectoral promises to the people and that must have informed the<br \/>\nchoice APC made on who is best suited to drive the new NASS. Having<br \/>\nany other leadership will translate to fueling the kind of bitter<br \/>\nrivalry and street fight that marked the relationship between the<br \/>\nexecutive and NASS in the past four years and Nigeria, as a nation,<br \/>\ncan ill-afford this bitter experience. We need a NASS and a NASS<br \/>\nleadership that fit into the Next Level commitment of the present<br \/>\ngovernment and compliment it to deliver on the promises embedded in<br \/>\nthat campaign. Nigeria will be the better for this and anything less<br \/>\nthan this will rather exacerbate the developmental problems we have<br \/>\nbeen battling to tame as a nation.<\/p>\n<p>Peter ClaverOparah<\/p>\n<p>Ikeja,Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>E-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:peterclaver2000@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">peterclaver2000@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few weeks\u2019time, a new National Assembly will be inaugurated to steer the legislative ship of the nation for the next four years. 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