Major Takeaways from Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s Interview with the Guardian
(Link on http://guardian.ng/features/we-need-a-strong-team-to-be-in-charge-of-the-economy-says-dogara/)

Speaking on the lack of compliance to Senate summons by appointees of the executive branch, Dogara said:

“Now the Senate has summoned the Attorney General of the Federation and the man has refused to appear. This is a man that appeared before the Senate for screening and now, he is saying he is not answerable to the Senate that he is an appointee of the president. Have we returned to that era?”



Speaking on attempts to strangle the legislature, Dogara said:
“If the goal is that they want to strangle the parliament, then definitely, we are going to run into serious problems and that will be an affront, a serious affront, on democracy and that will be totally unacceptable.”


Speaking on the need to preserve the independence of the National Assembly, Dogara said:
“Where you have the case of government’s power being carved out and vertically or horizontally shared. There are all for some purposes. I believe that the National Assembly in any country is the bastion of democracy. Where you do not have an independent National Assembly, you definitely will have some kind of totalitarian tendencies in the government.”