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I Rate Saraki, Dogara Very Very Low – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says he rates senate president Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house, “very very low”.

Speaking in an interview with state TV, Buhari said the national assembly, as led by Saraki and Dogara held Nigeria to ransom for seven months without passing the budget.

“I told Saraki and Dogara that by holding the budget for 7 months, you’re not hurting me, you’re hurting Nigerians? In terms of patriotism, I rate them very very low,” Buhari said on Monday night.

The president said the national assembly wanted to show they were the government and not the executive, and he made his displeasure known about their conduct.

Buhari and the leadership of the national assembly have had a long run of disagreement from one issue to the other.

Upon the election of the eight national assembly, President Buhari and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had preferred candidates for the leadership of the assembly.

Their preferred choices — Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila — were defeated in a political game that threw up Saraki and Dogara, who were former members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

By 2016, the assembly was rocked by a budget padding scandal, which pitched the executive against the legislative arm of government.

The Senate in 2017 stopped the screening of Buhari’s appointee, following the president’s refusal to sign some bills of the national assembly into law, and the refusal to sack Ibrahim Magu as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

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