Dino Melaye blasts Akpabio, Abbas over failure to hold Tinubu to account

Former lawmaker, who represented Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has accused the 10th National Assembly of surrendering its independency and failing to clasp the medication of President Bola Tinubu to account.

Melaye, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, made the allegation astatine a property league successful Abuja connected Wednesday.

He stated that the mode successful which the Senate and the House of Representatives person handled law amendments, electoral reforms, fund implementation, information issues and different captious matters raises superior questions astir the enactment of Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas.

He described the 10th Assembly arsenic a “department of the Villa,” saying the legislature had abandoned its halfway work of checking enforcement excesses.

In a insubstantial titled “The 10th Assembly: The Pathway to Tinubu’s ‘Lifetime Presidency’,” Melaye argued that a president does not request to abolish word limits to amass excessive powerfulness if institutions meant to restrain him neglect to execute their duties.