Senator representing Kaduna central district in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has regretted that the beer parlour attitude of some members of the National Assembly had denied the parliamentarians the opportunity of asking President Muhammadu Buhari some questions regarding the performances of the 2018 budget performance.
Speaking as a guest on Channels TV’s Politics Today in Abuja, today, Thursday, Senator Sani emphasized that his colleagues missed the opportunity of allowing the leadership of the National Assembly dock the President and question the figures he reeled out before the lawmakers during his 2019 budget presentation.
“As far as I am concerned, the performance of the government has not made any significant progress with regards to 2017 and now.
“But booing the president is not the best way to challenge those facts. We could have had the opportunity of the leaders of both Houses (of Parliament) put the President in dock and challenge his figures but it was missed.
“Naturally, the parliament is not a graveyard or library where you want people to be silent. But it is also not a beer parlour or a bus station.
“As far as I am concerned, we could have put him (Buhari) to task and ask him questions and also challenge those figures that he presented before us.
“For me, even the figures he raised are questionable but the opportunity for one to put his figures to fact was missed actually.”
