We welcome constructive criticism, parliament not created to keep people out – Akpabio

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has said that parliament was established to service the radical and not to unopen them retired of the antiauthoritarian process.
Speaking connected Tuesday astatine the opening of the National Assembly Open Week successful Abuja, Akpabio said the legislature belongs to Nigerians whose votes made its beingness possible.

Akpabio said parliament does not beryllium solely to elected lawmakers but to the millions of Nigerians whose votes and expectations gave it the mandate and purpose.

He stressed that the National Assembly was created to beforehand nationalist information successful governance.

“Parliament was ne'er built to support the radical out. It was built to bring them in, for ideology flourishes lone successful the assurance of an informed and engaged citizenry.”

Akpabio said the Open Week was designed to springiness Nigerians a amended knowing of the enactment of the legislature and to fortify nationalist assurance successful antiauthoritarian institutions.

He explained that the inaugural would let citizens to look beyond headlines and spot parliament arsenic a spot wherever the aspirations of Nigerians are reflected ...