COALITION OF CSOs WARNS PRESIDENT ELECT TO ABSTAIN FROM NASS LEADERSHIP TUSSLE/ELECTION
In a press briefing that held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, the Executive Director of Centre For strategy Ethics and Value, Romanus Azubuike ugwu after a consultative meeting with a coalition of NGOs and CSOs addressed the press where he explicitly spoke on the need to have an independent NASS that will have the capacity to carry out oversight functions and checkmate the excesses of the other arms of Government, Ministries, Department and Agencies. Noting clearly, that an independent parliament begins with independent leadership. "The doctrine of separation of powers is an integral component of a virile and functioning democracy. Over the last two decades, Nigerians have suffered excessively from the action and inactions of what can be best described as a "rubber stamp assembly". This had reduced the parliament to a muffled voice incapable of representing of the yearnings and aspirations of their constituents, a parliament that mortgaged the future of the Ni...