Ekweremadu gives reason for clashes between executive, legislative arms in Nigeria
executive and the legislative arms constantly clash in Nigeria.
The lawmaker said the constant frosty relationship between the two
arms of government is due to the highhandedness of the executive.
Ekweremadu spoke yesterday in Abuja at the formal launch of the
Responsive Political Party Programme, RPPP, of the International
Republican Institute, IRI.
He said executive excesses couched in party supremacy which strives to
impose leadership on the parliament, is always the reason for the
loggerheads.
According to him, "In the face of executive belligerence that usually
follows, the parliamentarians would naturally rally around their
popularly elected leadership in defence of the principle of separation
of powers.
"Even when such imposition succeeds, it hardly lasts, as the history
of the National Assembly in the current democratic dispensation
clearly shows.
The DSP further admitted that there was often lack of synergy between
the political parties and their members in the parliament.
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