Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has said
that the votes of the people in the 2015 general elections must count
and be respected.
He said this in Abuja on Thursday at the special plenary session to
mark the second anniversary of the 7th House of Representatives.
According to him, “We must place national interest above selfish
interest; we must place objective principles above parochialism and
whims. We must deliberately promote a viable and transparent electoral
process. The right to opinion and dissent must be given space in our
political discuss.
He declared that “Internal party democracy is a sine qua non to the
genuine development of democratic culture, therefore, as we work and
walk towards 2015, we ought to take the vow that all votes must count
whether in intra party democratic processes or at the level of inter
party contests.
“True democracy does not happen by accident, it is therefore our duty
as intimate practitioners and beneficiaries of political patronage to
be in the vanguard of the deepening of democracy. The people of Nigeria
desire and deserve this, it is right and honourable we have a duty to
deliver these noble expectations.
Noting that the role of the legislature in the sustenance of true
democracy is critical and imperative, Tambuwal said that, “If the
legislature loses credibility and the moral standing to efficiently
perform its constitutional duties of checks and balances, then democracy
is threatened a bigotry, authoritarianism, despotism and all the
negative isms will mount the saddle and absolute corruption will run the
nation aground. Certainly we have no mandate to oversight the failing
of the State.”
He described as unacceptable, a situation in which the nation still
suffers acute poverty of democratic culture and practices, 14 years of
uninterrupted democracy.
The Speaker was also of the view that government measures against
insecurity and insurgency are cosmetic, saying that the vicious circle
of unemployment, poverty and insecurity constitute a grave social malady
in the nation’s body polity and which has forced Nigeria to declare war
on consequences rather than causes.
source: daily post
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