Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has attacked the national assembly for threatening to take over the Edo state house of assembly.
Channels Television reports on Sunday, August 4 that Oyegun while speaking with newsmen in Benin, the Edo state capital, said it was wrong of the federal legislators to issue an ultimatum to Governor Godwin Obaseki on fresh proclamation of the Edo assembly.
The former Edo governor said the actions of the Senate and the House of Representatives amounted to undermining the sovereignty and legitimacy of the Edo state governor Obaseki. This, he described as immature politics.
He noted that Obaseki’s office was as sovereign as President Muhammadu Buhari’s and should be treated as such.
He said: “Our politics has to start maturing. Our politics has to start being civilised. Our politics has to move from killings, maiming, thuggery and the rest of it.
“Our politics has to move to a stage where you can differ with somebody and state the good reasons for differing. I don’t think it has ever happened in this country that the National Assembly will issue instructions to a sovereign government.
“People don’t seem to realise it, there are two sovereignties. We have the President who represents the sovereignty of this nation and the governor reflects the sovereignty of the state.”
