Some Actions and Decisions of 8th Senate Regrettable, Buhari Admits

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday night admitted that some actions and decisions of the 8th National Assembly were below the belt, explaining that those decisions were regrettable.

Speaking while hosting governors and senators-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to a dinner at the State House in Abuja, Buhari condemned the deliberate acts of delaying the passage of the nation’s annual budget by the National Assembly among other activities.

According to him, “This is my fifth and

last time of standing for an election – for that reason I’ll like to leave something behind.

“And what I want to leave cannot be successfully done without your support.

“So, that is why I’m appealing for your support. What happened in the last senate and so on is regrettable because I still feel it shouldn’t take seven months to pass a budget. You have a very, very serious job ahead of you.

“So, what I’m appealing is that any major decision you are going to take, please reflect more on the country than yourself as a person – what effect will it have on the country.”

Addressing the journalists after the dinner, APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, said: “The system talks about the separation of powers between the executive and legislature and the two must handshake for things to happen.

“And when you have a president that is determined to drive changes, fundamental changes that will affect our habits, our life style, review the economy, deal with the security situation, fight corruption as fiercely as he is trying to do, he will need a very supportive legislative arm of government.

“And happily, the Nigerian people have given us the number in the legislative arm of government.

“All we have agreed today is that we will use these numbers as a functioning whole to determine the leadership of the senate in a way that we are not going to go to the floor of the senate and allow the opposition dictate who becomes the senate president.

“Because, we have comfortable majority to drive that, what we have to do is to manage that majority.”