Why National Assembly can’t go against Tinubu – Akpabio

• He also stated that the federal lawmakers cannot engage in activities that undermine Tinubu’s government because the president has muscled the two chambers of National Assembly

Senate President Godswill Akpabio says President Bola Almed Tinubu understands the importance of the legislature in a democracy, hence his cordial relationship with the National Assembly.

He also stated that the federal lawmakers cannot engage in activities that undermine Tinubu’s government because the president has muscled the two chambers of National Assembly.

Akpabio, who spoke at a Public Lecture and Book Launch in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said Tinubu has arm-twisted him and his colleagues into doing his bidding with the conferment of GCON on them.

The event was organised to mark the birthday of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.

The Senate President said any President that wants to survive like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu must hold the speaker and the Senate President very closely the way Tinubu is holding them.

He said the only place that can hurt a governor is the House of Assembly and no court or democracy can stop that from happening.

He said, “Recently he conferred on us GCON, Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, whether he loved it or not he did it. He muscled the two Chambers together.

“For those of you, who may not understand politics, we were taught that the parliament can turn a woman into a man and a man into a woman. As a governor my greatest fear was my House of Assembly.

“So because of that I never travelled anywhere without my Speaker. Any time I didn’t see him for a day, I would send somebody to his house to invite him to come and have a launch with me and I used ideas to look at his face to know whether he was happy with me or not.

“The only place that can hurt a governor is the House of Assembly and no court or democracy can stop that from happening. Any President that wants to survive like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu must hold the speaker and the Senate President very closely the way he is holding us.”