Lawmakers Express Frustration Over Tinubu Visit, Say Visit A Waste Of Resources
In what looks like a state of confusion, the visit of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the national assembly on Wednesday has left many lawmakers, particularly Senators in a state of lamentations, and bewilderment, as some of them who were visibly angry with the visit said it was a waste of tax payers’ money.
The annoyances of the Senators according to our sources was that President Tinubu turned down the invitation on the ground that Wednesday May, 29, was no longer a democracy day in Nigeria, but the
leadership of the national assembly led by it chairman, the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, led a delegation to the Villa to go and beg him to come and address them.
Information at our disposal has it that the president has earlier turned down the invitation insisting that June 12, was an official day for democracy and wonders why he should be invited on a Wednesday May, 29.
According to some of the lawmakers who were lamenting after the session, “it was not proper for the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the speaker Tajudeen Abbas, among other principal officers to go to the Villa to begged Mr. President to come and address them today (Wednesday).
Ibom Focus reported that the visit was scheduled for 10 am, but the president arrived the national assembly few minutes to 12 pm unlike him, perhaps to buttress the claim by these lawmakers that he (President Tinubu) was begged to come.
The lawmakers who were visibly angry with the situation noted that the resources put in place for the visit were a waste of tax payers’ money.
“I am yet to come to terms with what just played out today (Wednesday) after spending this much, yet the president was not willing to come, and they have to go and beg him to come.
“What exactly did he come to do, if not that he was begged to come. Can anyone point out what he said, what was his address to the lawmakers outside saying that we should collaborate with him, have we not been collaborating with him before, so what?” one of the angry Lawmakers a said queried.
