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The National Assembly will not oppose the judgment All Progressives Congress (APC) by bypassing a veto pertaining to the 2016 Budget Appropriation Bill, Speaker Yakubu Dogara claimed on Thursday.
According to a Naij record, Dogara specified that regardless of just how prompted they might come to be, the executive and also Parliament will certainly not fight over differenced occurring from the questionable financial record.
“We know that as leaders, our responsibility is not to fight. It is one government and this government will take the active collaboration of the judiciary, legislature and the executive to be able to deliver on the mandate.”
“We cannot form an opposition within the same government. The executive cannot constitute itself into an opposition within the system in the same government, neither can the parliament, even though it is a bipartisan one,” Dogara said.
According to the Speaker, the National Assembly was well within its powers to make amendments to the budget before passing it due to the duties of the executive stopping at providing the legislature with estimates which it then prepares into an appropriation law.
“And we have exercised that constitutional right and privilege which is exclusively reserved for the National Assembly using the document that is before the president. And as we all know, a law requires the assent of the president, that is one of the instrumentalities of checks and balances that democracy guarantees,” stated Dogara.
