The Presidency and the National
Assembly were at loggerheads on Friday over the decision of the Senate and the
House of Representatives to take over the legislative functions of the Rivers
State House of Assembly.
While the Presidency declared the
move as “hasty,” the National Assembly insisted that the decision was the right
one.
The Senate, on Thursday, had passed a
resolution empowering it and the House of Representatives to take over the
legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Information and Media, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, had said after the decision,
that a meeting between the President of the Senate, David Mark, and the
Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal, would be held to draw up
modalities for the running of the Rivers Assembly.
But the Special Adviser to the
President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, told one of our correspondents on
Friday that it was wrong for the National Assembly not to explore a political
solution to the crisis in the state before taking the decision.
The presidential aide said, “The
National Assembly’s decision to take over the functions of the Rivers State
House of Assembly is too hasty.
“Adamawa State House of
Assembly was closed down for three months without the National Assembly taking
over its functions.
“Ondo State House of Assembly
was shut down for almost one year and the National Assembly did not take over
its roles.
“It is always better to allow
some of these crises to be resolved politically rather than such actions by the
National Assembly.
“If care is not taken, the
National Assembly may end up taking over the responsibilities of all state
houses of assembly which will not be good for our democracy.”
However, the Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Information and Media, Abaribe, told one of our correspondents
that the takeover would continue for “as long as it takes to bring a lasting
peace to the House of Assembly.”
“Note that the constitution did not
specify any time limit. We will however make efforts to restore peace to the
state assembly as soon as possible,” Abaribe said.
Similarly, the House of
Representatives defended the intervention of the National Assembly, arguing
that it was to rescue democracy from derailing.
The Chairman, House Committee
on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Zakari Mohammed, said the crisis would have
“snowballed to something else” had the National Assembly not intervened.
“At the point we came in, there
were two Speakers of the state House of Assembly.
“There was violence and we were
headed for anarchy; so, the right thing to do was to invoke Section 11 of the
1999 Constitution (as amended).
“The section empowers us to
take over the duty of a state assembly whenever it is unable to perform its
functions.
“We did the right thing to
rescue democracy,” he added.
In a related development, Governor
Rotimi Amaechi has hailed the takeover of the state legislature by the National
Assembly.
Amaechi, who spoke through the state
Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, on
Saturday, said “We believe that the National Assembly has stepped in to
safeguard our democracy. Our democratic institutions must be allowed to grow.
We need to deepen our democracy for it to grow.
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