Allow NASS Choose Presiding Officers, Group Tells Tinubu

Democracy Watch Initiative has urged President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to allow national assembly to choose their presiding officers without interference.

Addressing journalists during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, the group national coordinator, Sanusi Umar urged Tinubu to recall the incredible promises he made to the North during electioneering at the Arewa House talk show organized by the Northern leaders and elders.

“What we are demanding is a free environment for the exercise of franchise as the only solution to the pervasive communal distrust that is more accentuated in the North.

“We believe a free election of leaders of the National Assembly by its own members would put to end the already brewing concerns of marginalization and fear of domination of other geopolitical zones in the North by others.”

Speaking further, he said everyone must be aware by now that those pursuing this undemocratic, unconstitutional and unrealistic agenda are not your friends; they are people who did not vote for you.

“What they are doing about the National Assembly leadership is to test the ground for a wider political agenda that aims to diminish your personal populist tendencies and those anticipated in your government,” he said.