Time and again, president Mohammdu Buhari has said he would not interfere in the crisis rocking the national assembly over key positions.
He stated he would stick to the principle of separation of powers, saying that the two chambers of the assembly, House of Representatives and the Senate have established ways of electing their leaders in the last 16 years of democratic practice.
President Buhari spoke on Good Morning Nigeria, a Programme of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA monitored in Abuja on Monday.
Buhari and Bukola Saraki
Buhari and Bukola Saraki
He said the his lot was to appeal to the federal lawmakers through the ruling All Progressives Party, APC to show understanding and resolve the matter.
He said: “I have to be very sensitive to the constitution of the country. I do not like to be told by anybody especially the legislators that I am interfering in their matter. There are three arms of government: executive, legislature and the judiciary. Over the last 16 years, they have developed the system of choosing their leaders.
“There is no way I can directly interfere. All I can do through the party is to appeal to their conscience that what I already observed, we should go over it as soon as possible. When I say we, I mean the APC.
“We cannot win the battle and lose the war. We must not allow individual personal ambition to succeed in dividing us and allow PDP to deal with us. This is what the National Assembly has allowed so far, the APC is giving the PDP the allowance to take over the government again. This is extremely disheartening, I am very worried.
“The only think I can do is to appeal to the conscience of the APC members in the Senate and House. It took us time to get to where we are, I don’t want personal ambitions to scuttle our success and therefore fail to deliver on our promises to the nation”
The president who also explained why he was yet to appoint ministers, assuring that no compromised Nigerian would make his cabinet.
“From what I have seen so far, we need very patriotic Nigerians, Nigerians that can work very hard with knowledgable experience, committed Nigerians to be in charge of ministries. A lot of institutions in Nigeria are compromised, everybody for himself and God for all of us. It is most unfortunate. We have people, educated and experienced people, but everybody seems to be working for himself on how much they could get away with as soon as possible.
“We have to look for technocrats and politicians. We have to look out for decent people in this class to give them the responsibility of being in charge of ministries and important parastatals.
Source:Vanguard
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