President Muhammadu Buhari has said that in terms of patriotism, he had rated the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara below par.

The President who said he had already passed a vote of no confidence on the duo who are leaders of the National Assembly, said they hurt Nigerians by stalling the enactment of the 2019 budget.

President Buhari said this in an interview broadcast on the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, on Monday night.

The President revealed that he had relayed his reservations to the legislative leaders as he appended his signature to the bill Monday morning.

According to Buhari: “I think a culture was developed in the National Assembly that they should dictate the terms, which was wrong. It is the executive that dictates the terms and takes it before the legislature. It (the legislature) will examine it and agree or disagree with it.

“But when they go around posing that they are the government and not the executive, then that’s the problem. I felt and I spoke personally to the Senate President, Saraki, and the leader of the House, Dogara. They could not deny it.

“I asked them how they felt to hold the country at ransom for seven months without passing a budget. Unfortunately, they were not hurting me; they were hurting the country. So, really, in terms of patriotism, I think I rated them very low indeed. . source; journal.ng . https://journal.ng/2019/05/28/how-dogara-saraki-hurt-nigerians-thinking-it-was-me/