Senate President Ahmad Lawan has asked Nigerians to vote out the members of the 9th National Assembly in 2023 if they don’t like them or help support the system to function.
Lawan said this on Friday, November 20, during a retreat for top management of the National Assembly Service Commission and National Assembly in Abuja.
He said, “What does the legislature mean to Nigerians. Can we debate properly what the functions of members of the National Assembly and indeed the legislature should be rather than be talking about jumbo pay?
“We should be looking for value for money. Without the National Assembly or the legislature across the country, we won’t have democracy anymore.
“We need to understand what the National Assembly or the legislature means to Nigerians.
“Instead of trying to see how N128 billion will be utilized by the National Assembly, what will be the outputs and how useful they are to the Nigerian public, Nigerians only argue that the budget should be cut, it is too much.
“I’m not defending the National Assembly, but I’m here to encourage debate on what the National Assembly or the legislature means to us as a country and as people.
“If you don’t like the set of members of the ninth National Assembly, change all of us in 2023. Get better people but help support the system to function.”
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