The Senate has reacted to criticism that the current National Assembly is a “rubber stamp” to President Bola Tinubu-led Executive.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, said the current National Assembly ‘rubber-stamps’ everything that is in the best interest of Nigerians.
Adaramodu noted that the legislative arm of government is the soft target of most Nigerians.
He disclosed this while featuring on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Thursday evening.
According to Adaramodu: “Like I usually say that we are the soft target of everybody, we are the most accessible by our constituents because they can’t access the executive the way they can have access to us.
“So definitely, we are the first and last to them.
“Again, when people say that the National Assembly is rubber stamped, I always ask the question, even when you want to do a certified true copy of any document without the rubber stamp, it’s invalid.
“Even when the executive and Judiciary does any process, procedure, or programme, if the rubber stamp is not there – it’s not authentic – so to that extent we rubber stamp everything that is good for Nigerians.
“Even if it’s not a literal rubber stamp and they brought student loans, are we saying we would not stamp it because we don’t want some people to say not in a fisticuff with the executive?”
