Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that it would be
suicidal to threaten Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker
Yakubu Dogara considering their physical sizes.
Osinbajo was speaking jokingly while declaring open the 16th
Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth
(CSPOC) in Abuja on Tuesday.
The acting president said the two arms of government have worked
harmoniously in the past two years but that the Nigerian media gets
more interested in disagreements between them.
“On a lighter note, I don’t know the experiences of presiding
officers from other nations present here on the relationship
between the Executive and the Legislature by the press and the
social media.
“Here in Nigeria, what makes news is conflict between the
Executive and the Legislature. The more dramatic is it, the more
newsworthy it becomes.
“If you follow things in the media, you’ll be confronted by the
exclusive and breaking news stories, reporting several different
issues of conflicts between the Executive and the Legislature.
“I’ll pick just one. There’s one of our popular newspapers that
had the caption: ‘Acting President threatens leadership of the
National Assembly.’
“Now, if you see the combined sizes of the Senate President and
the Right Honourable Speaker compared to mine, it’ll be a suicidal
to threaten either of them let alone the two of them,” Osinbajo
said jokingly.
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that it would be
suicidal to threaten Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker
Yakubu Dogara considering their physical sizes.
Osinbajo was speaking jokingly while declaring open the 16th
Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth
(CSPOC) in Abuja on Tuesday.
The acting president said the two arms of government have worked
harmoniously in the past two years but that the Nigerian media gets
more interested in disagreements between them.
“On a lighter note, I don’t know the experiences of presiding
officers from other nations present here on the relationship
between the Executive and the Legislature by the press and the
social media.
“Here in Nigeria, what makes news is conflict between the
Executive and the Legislature. The more dramatic is it, the more
newsworthy it becomes.
“If you follow things in the media, you’ll be confronted by the
exclusive and breaking news stories, reporting several different
issues of conflicts between the Executive and the Legislature.
“I’ll pick just one. There’s one of our popular newspapers that
had the caption: ‘Acting President threatens leadership of the
National Assembly.’
“Now, if you see the combined sizes of the Senate President and
the Right Honourable Speaker compared to mine, it’ll be a suicidal
to threaten either of them let alone the two of them,” Osinbajo
said jokingly.
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