Sen. Ahmed LawanSenate President Ahmed Lawan has read riot act to incoming ministers and other appointees of President Muhammadu Buhari in the performance in the oversight functions of the National Assembly.
Speaking when he paid a courtesy visit on the All Progressives Congress National (APC) leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in his Lagos residence today, July 7, the Senate President said that performing parliamentary oversight functions well would keep every appointee of the government on his or her toes.
“Whoever is given a job must do it well. We will perform our job not to create hostility or engender rancour in the relationship between the National Assembly and the Executive. But to create synergy. Synergy will help us deliver our respective services to the people.”
He assured Nigerians that President Buhari and the government would get every possible support from the National Assembly.
Promising to run a bi-partisan and united Senate, Lawan said the senators had already formed some ideas about what it wanted to do and how they would operate, which would be through cooperation and collaboration with all necessary institutions and agencies.
The Senate President thanked Asiwaju Tinubu and the APC for ensuring the emergence of a united leadership of the National Assembly.
Receiving the Senate president and his team, Asiwaju Tinubu said that the determination of the National Assembly to perform their functions dispassionately is commendable, even as he commended Lawan on his resolve to run a bi-partisan Senate.
