Former Vice President and a member of the All Progressive
Congress, APC Atiku Abubakar has congratulated the newly elected leaders of the
National Assembly, admonishing them to see their elections beyond the narrow
interests of respective political parties.
The former Vice President in a press statement issued by his
media office on Tuesday, 9 June noted that with the elections of its presiding
officers, the 8th National Assembly should swing to work and put the overall
national interest beyond the personal political interests of its members..
Atiku Abubakar while congratulating the new leaders of the parliament
on their election, reminded every member of both the Senate and the House of
Representatives of their responsibilities to their constituents, which, he
said, is to put national interest before their individual political interest.
Irrespective of the political mix through which the
presiding officers emerged, he noted, the 8th National Assembly should never
lose focus of its role as a partner in progress with the other arms of
government, especially the executive arm.
“The Nigerian people look up to the new National Assembly to
work with the executive arm in finding solutions to the problems of insecurity,
poverty, illiteracy and joblessness in the country. Their election is indeed a
call to duty, and it is a call for which they cannot afford to fail the
nation.”
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