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Executive, legislative faceoff: Buhari seeks solution, sets up committee

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Following the worsening relationship between the executive and legislative arms of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a committee to look into the causes of the growing chasm between the two arms of government and proffer solutions to the situation.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known to State House correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said the President set up a cabinet committee that will give solution to the crisis during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting which he presided over.

“The executive is concerned that the relationship between the two arms of government is not as smooth as it is supposed to be.

“In any democracy, it is a continuous struggle for balancing between the Executive and the Legislature because each of them are creatures of the law.

“We must strive at all times to ensure that there is that balance, amity and smooth relationship. Just today at the Federal Executive Council meeting, the issue was discussed and a committee is already working on ensuring that we resolve all these outstanding issues,” he said.

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He further revealed that the committee would be chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo with all ministers who were at a time members of the National Assembly as members of the committee.

Also members as revealed by Mohammed are senior special assistants to the President on National Assembly Matters and House of Representatives, Ita Enang and Samaila Kawu respectively.

The Senate has been angry over how the executive treated issues involving it and top senior government officials as Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali; the Secretary General of the Federation Babachir Lawal and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu.

Aggrieved that, more than any other, that President Buhari was yet to remove Magu after his rejection by it, the Senate on Tuesday refused to approve the nomination of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in protest over Buhari’s continued retention of Magu as EFCC helmsman.

 

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