President Muhammadu Buhari has been commended for making remarkable improvements in democratic governance than his predecessors despite his antecedents as a military dictator.
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Rules and Business, Hon. Emmanuel Oker Jev gave the commendation on Friday while speaking at a press conference to commemorate the one year anniversary of the 8th House in Abuja.
The lawmaker said unlike in the immediate past administration where heads of MDAs ignored National Assembly resolutions by rushing to obtain court orders or by Presidential backing, there has been an improvement with the compliance to resolutions passed by the House.
“If you recall there was a time in this country, I’m talking about compliance with resolutions of the House, there was a time in this country that parliament will pass a resolution dictatorial towards the legislature. for a member of the executive arm of government to come they will resist and get the protection of the Presidency or they would go to court and get a restraining order.
“I think there is an improvement, if you consider that President Buhari was a military Head of State and during his campaign, a lot of people made a case that he would continue acting like a dictator.
“He has come and he is showing remarkable difference from his antecedents as a military dictator, unfortunately it is those who we expected to know INSIDE “We have the Attorney General of the Federation who advised against implementation of the resolution of the National Assembly, when the House took a resolution that Kogi Assembly should be closed as a result of the crisis there.
“The Inspector General complied, unfortunately an advice came after and it was opened up. We need people to know that this is a democracy, it must be respected but I think things could get better”, he said.
