By Sunny Anderson Osiebe
House
of Representatives Speaker,Yakubu Dogara on Monday described the crisis
between the legislature and the executive as unavoidable.
Addressing State House reporters
after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari,the speaker said crisis
was an opportunity for both arms of government to begin afresh.
Dogara also viewed crisis as an opportunity to set new boundaries, examine things in a new way.
President Buhari had last
Wednesday set up a committee, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to
resolve all outstanding issues with the Senate.
Such issues include the suspension
of the confirmation of the nominations of 27 Resident Electoral
Commissioners and the rejection of the acting chairman of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.
Commenting on the rift between the
executive and the Senate over Magu,Dogara said the legislature and the
executive could only be remembered for solving problems, not avoiding
them.
"You might look at it as crisis,
but I don't look at it as crisis. You know I've always said that as a
government, our value will be the problems we have solved. We can't be
remembered for avoiding or running away from problems. It is only when
we provide solutions to some of the things you refer to as crisis and we
look at it as opportunities to begin the new that people will now
remember us for putting down enduring legacies.
But when we run away from everything that appears to be trouble,we will not make it," he said.
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