National Assembly leadership will no longer meet with the president
President Muhammadu Buhari may have
shown the National Assembly his true
colours after reports emerged that he has
totally canceled a meting with the leaders.According to Garba Shehu, the president’s
senior special assistant on media and
publicity, the president is not willing to meet
with the leadership of the Nigerian Senate
as well as other leaders of the National
Assembly to break the Ramadan fast with
them.
Speaking with Sahara Reporters, Shehu
noted that there’s no way the president will
still meet with the National Assembly leaders
before the end of the Ramadan fast which is
likely to end on Monday or Tuesday, June 5
(which has been announced as Public
Holiday already).
Different groups and leaders have been
hosted by the president since his return to
the country from London where he went to
treat an ear infection but the National
Assembly has been omitted.
About two weeks ago, President Buhari was
scheduled to host the leaders of both
chambers of NASS to Iftar, but the meeting
was canceled a few hours with the Nigerian
leader stating that he was bombarded with
schedules.
He said: “You will recall that the President
spent most of the days in the Ramadan month
outside the country.
“By the time he returned, a schedule had
already been made for him on those he would
be receiving daily.
“On the day fixed for the National Assembly
leaders, most of them had prior engagements
and so the event could not hold. It is difficult
to begin to adjust the schedule when others
fixed for other days have been duly informed.
It is not by anybody’s making.”
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