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Nnewi tochukwu my friend is from dia

Tunde Fowler used to get death threats when he began collecting levies in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos 10 years ago. Today he gets hailed as Tax Muyiwa, a nickname that means “bring your tax” in the local Yoruba language.
His staff of about 3,000 administrators no longer need police escorts to prevent them from being attacked. They walk freely in their green-and-white logoed Lagos Internal Revenue Service polo shirts, reflecting a growing acceptance among a taxpaying population that’s surged by half to 4.5 million in the past five years.
“Society has taken us as part of them,” Fowler, the 58-year-old chairman of the tax agency, said in an interview at one of Lagos’s members-only boat clubs, overlooking a lagoon on the affluent Victoria Island. “They know we’re working for them and it’s a partnership now.”

Lagos, the powerhouse of Africa’s biggest economy where about 12 percent of the nation’s 177 million population live, has reduced its reliance on oil-revenue allocations from the federal government at a time when crude prices have slumped. The state’s own revenue generated from taxes was almost double what it received from the government last year.
Rising income has allowed Lagos authorities to build schools, houses, roads and other infrastructure to transform the southwestern state, which is just slightly bigger in size than Rhode Island. Construction is underway on a new light railway that connects the western end of the state to its center and that may cut the commute time to 40 minutes both ways. The journey currently takes about four hours because of chronic traffic congestion.
Buhari’s Government
Widening the tax base and improving the efficiency of tax collection will likely be a priority for the new government under President Muhammadu Buhari, said Stanley Achonu, the head of operations at BudgIT, a Lagos-based organization that works to bring transparency to public spending.
Buhari, 72, took office on May 29 amid a more than 40 percent slump in oil prices in the past year. Crude exports account for about 70 percent of government revenue in Africa’s biggest oil producer.
Nigeria is under “so much pressure, with the Treasury virtually empty, with debts in billions of dollars,” Buhari told reporters on June 22. “State workers and even federal workers not paid their salaries is such a disgrace for Nigeria.”
Film Hub
Declining oil receipts have forced the government to scale back its spending plans and devalue the currency as foreign-currency reserves plunged. The naira has weakened 7.8 percent against the dollar on the interbank market this year and was trading at 199 as of 1:10 p.m. in Lagos on Friday.
Aside from Lagos, Nigeria’s 35 other states mainly rely on oil-revenue allocations from the federal government to fund the bulk of their budgets. States can generate their own income from personal income taxes, while revenue collected from a 30 percent tax on company profits goes to the federal government.
Lagos’s economy makes up 20 percent to 25 percent of Nigeria’s gross domestic product, according to Fitch Ratings. Not only a hub for banking and telecommunications, where companies such as Standard Chartered Plc and MTN Group Ltd. have their country headquarters, Lagos is also site of the nation’s booming film industry.
Lagos earned 276 billion naira ($1.4 billion) last year from its own sources, which equates to about 56 percent of its budget, according to official data. That’s up from about 40 billion naira when Fowler took office in 2005 and compared with 140 billion naira received from the federal government in 2014.
‘Nerve Center’
Nationally, tax revenue covers about 22 percent of the government’s budget.
Fowler says the tax agency’s success lies in its use of electronic payments, trained workers and educating the public about the benefits of paying duties. He is using that same strategy to convince an additional 4 million people to pay taxes.
“Many states would like to do what Lagos is doing but they don’t have the opportunity to do that,” Taiwo Oyedele, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC’s Nigerian unit and head of its tax and corporate advisory services unit, said in a phone interview. “Lagos is the commercial nerve center of Nigeria. That’s not to say the others are not trying, but they’ll never get to the level of Lagos state.”
Nigeria has some way to go in transforming its tax system. The West African nation ranks 179th out of 189 countries in a World Bank and PwC 2014 survey on paying taxes.
Tax Net
Trying to convince Lagosians to pay taxes to the government is a difficult task, especially when illegal levies and bribes already eat into their income.
Bolarin Adeyemi, who earns a living driving a three-wheeled taxi known as a keke marwa, quit his job as a tailor four years ago when his employer announced that he would be deducting tax.
Four years later, Adeyemi, 31, said he has to pay 1,400 naira a day to the local council, transport association and police and traffic authorities to operate his vehicle, some of which are bribes to avoid being harassed. After earning between 4,000 naira and 7,000 naira a day, the money he is forced to give away “looks like a tax,” he said in an interview.
Fowler, who plans to step down from his position this year, said Nigeria’s economy needs to be more productive so that more people can be employed and the tax net widened.
“It’s the only way of having revenue and ensuring economic growth,” he said. “Even if we don’t get government allocations for a month or two, Lagos will still pay salaries.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/lagos-tax-agents-turn-death-threats-into-praise-as-oil-plummets

soe:
Lalasticlala


Meanwhile, it is against the constitution for anyone who has willingly opted to be a citizen of another country to be elected into the National Assembly...

On my way to the federal high court...

you should know



citizenship does not apply to a citizen of this country by birth.

The tribunal however held on page 121 paragraph 2 of the record that

a Nigerian citizenship by his acquisition as the citizenship of another

country, he would stand disqualified from being a member of the

National Assembly if he holds such dual citizenship or has subscribed

to an oath of allegiance to any other country. That I must say with

due respect, is not contained in the Section under scrutiny. What one

can make of that Section read with Sections 25, 26 and 27 of the 1999

Constitution is that a citizen of this country by birth never loses his

citizenship even where he holds dual citizenship of another country

and cannot be disqualified from contesting election into the House of

Representative for reasons only that he holds such dual citizenship

solodox:
oh yeah technicallities...

"Section 66 (1) No person shall be qualified for election to the Senate or the House of Representatives if-
a) subject to section 28 of this Constitution he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria or, except in such cases as may be prescribed by the National Assembly, has made a declaration of allegiance to such a country

section 66 is dependent on section 26 quite ambiguous but i think he would pass

solodox:
yeah nigeria does!

on some limits , a holder of dual citizenship cant hold some certain positions in the country or else he has recanted one of those citizenship . if you remember the case against Senator Musilu Obanikoro


"Section 66 (1) No person shall be qualified for election to the Senate or the House of Representatives if-
a) subject to section 28 of this Constitution he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria or, except in such cases as may be prescribed by the National Assembly, has made a declaration of allegiance to such a country

LARRYDKING:
Was in unilag yesterday to submit my credentials. I then asked when the submission of transcript will close but to my utter surprise, I was apprised that I need not to send any transcript, the only needed documents are o/level, notification and jamb print out. I remembered someone saying no institution will request for the transcript, it seem his is correct on that, however, I can't vouch for funaab and oau.

I never hear this one before o, not too conversant about unilag but do yourself a favor and make inquiry at the registrar's office.

mizzhoneey:
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I have d hard copy of d result and grades of each completed stage. D institution does not issue transcript. Tanx 4 d reply. Are u also an aspirant or a staylite?

That won't pass, your institution must forward your transcript or you deliver by hand before you are admitted by OAU

accolades

byrron:
Ur assertions are valid but they are completely different from what I think should be addressed first.

I seek to know if a party rule overrides the senate convention and not about saraki and his party issues over who to appoint and who appointed who and that have been the explanations u have been making which is really different from the questions im asking.

I seek to know the position of the law on which rule governs the senate and not on the directives of APC leaders to the house leadership.

The party can still fill up those positions with its prefered candidates without breaching the extant Senate laws.

The real issue here is that no one cares to talk about the position of the law in this matter rather lots of contributors are divided purely based on subjective considerations and not about the law or is the law now on relegation?

The senate extant rules have been on existence long before APC as a party was even dreamt of and now we seek to elevate party directives above the senate rules?

Saraki is using the law as it's shield against following his party directives and I expected his party to respond to him by providing him extant laws too that backs up their directives to him but they know there is non and that is why no one is looking at it from that legal perspective and that is my area of interest and not on what party said or who did what rather "WHAT IS THE POSITION OF THE LAW" or is Nigeria no longer govern by laws anymore?

The US congress u mentioned have members from various political parties and it is instructive to note that all party directives to its members in choosing its house leadership was made while complying with all the extant laws that governs the US congress.

Democrats/Republicans have never demanded from its members to act against the senate rules despite their ideological differences.

Your assertions that there are no independence of the senate members from its political parties all over the world is nothing but fallacy, if you have been following the US congress for a long time then u should have known that most democrats in the US congress have been opposing Mr Obama's policies both on healthcare, the nuclear deal with Iran, his methodology in fighting ISIS etc and they are members of the same party and this has stalled most of the executive bills sent to congress from sailing through.

Do you think this would have been possible if the democrats in the house were all tied to the apron strings of the party?

Nigeria can only make progress only when everyone in it agree to accept and respect the law and not to choose which to comply with or discard.

I completely agree with u that party members should follow party guidlines but only when It does not breach statutory rules and conventions.

The drafters of the 1999 constitution envisaged this type of situation and also provided an instant remedy to it by inserting in the constitution that any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution becomes null and void which also includes party rules that are inconsistent with extant laws are to be discarded.

When we determine what the position of the law is first, then we can be guided to take a position that is legally backed up.

Legitimizing illegality isn't the way forward.

The bitter truth about APC crises is that, the party leadership keeps making decisions that are legally porous and some of it's members are exploiting those legal flaws created by its leadership.

As it stands now, Saraki is right before the law but wrong only in the eye's of the party leadership and it's faithfuls and the sad part of it all is this "MORALITY is not LEGALITY".

My dear nairalander, I appreciate ur rational contributions to the subject in discuss but my interest is purely on the position of the law and not on the position of the party because the law overrides the party rules and party rules should be made to conform with the dictates of the law and not the other way round as most assertions erroneously tends to propagate.

I have stated it over and over again and if you can't decipher it, am sorry mate. If you care to know no law says senate president to appoint principal officers, this fiasco is one of the pot holes the framers of the constitution did not envisage, at this point I am dropping the mic .

Spybradd:
ummmm,something tells me thats some line from a novel...if it had been "go sleep under da goddamm bed...", i wudda suspected james hadley chase,but no,though i still got my doubts,especially why n when u not down mostly with da romance,family,...kitchen section (there a kitchen section?),a lady is on ur profile n that means Mills'n'Boons...yeah..

This is a medieval mentality, you do not deserve any further reply from me . Cheers mate

Spybradd:
ummm..ahem! Yeah,chimamanda,that lady......talk'bout brawn'n'brain,hell yeah...now u dont suppose am gonna just walk away if i get to get close to Adichie,do u? am not gonna follow ya,but someone like u sure going nowhere from me.....

goan sleep under the bed

Spybradd:
u certainly aint the person in ur profile,are u? Women aint this vocal n eloquent politically.

i will call chimamanda for you o if you don't lemme alone

mekaboy:
Look at how easy it is for u to say. You hope it followed due process for your fellow Nigerians to be killed for a statement made.

You want to be left alone to govern yourself by sharia, but when it starts to backfire u start calling on Nigerian govt to use resources of the nation to solve a problem u created.

Soon we will have ISIS in this country.

ok, we mostly judge on things we dont understand.

Bail keh? They ought to have been denied bail

mekaboy:
did sharia court sentence people to death during Gej? Why isnt anyone staging prot3st against the death of these people.

dont always be sentimental, a lot happened with CAN during the last administration but we dont need to tow that line . so as far as it followed due process of Sharia then it is the will of Allah. cheers mate

mekaboy:
So we will watch 8 Nigerians sentenced to death by sharia court for blasphemy?

Did they wait for buhari to take over to pass such judgement?

I dont know what Nigeria is turning into.

the judicial system of Kano is different from what is practised elsewhere, the judgement might be quite harsh but i hope it followed the due process of Sharia

seems these people want to fill our heads with pictures, we need executive decisiveness

byrron:
The Law comes first before any political party and being a member of a political party does not confer an above the law statute on its members and if your party wants you to go against the parliamentary convention and extant provisions of the senate then such a party directives deserves to be discarded and saraki did just so.

"Furthermore, whilst one is strongly persuaded to toe party line and act in accordance with the suggested party position, regrettably, clear provisions of our extant rules and standard parliamentary convention have not given me that leeway to act otherwise. Therefore, my hands are tied in the circumstances and I seek your understanding in this regard."

The Senate Rules supersedes any political party directives that are inconsistent with the conventions of the senate, it is even more ludicrous to contemplate that a political party deliberately wants its member to breach an extant law without qualms?

Saraki deserves commendations for not breaching the law which is exactly what his party wanted him to do.

in as much as i understand the position you hold i greatly disagree with you.

1. if the Nigerian state seeks an independent legislative, it should stick not to include electioneering of legislatures through party lines, during elections did you see Bukola Saraki's name on the ballot papers ?

2. no where in the world are legislatures "independent" free and do not toe "party lane", what do you think stands out the major debates in the senate n house of rep in the U.S ? Democrats and liberals party manifesto and how do you think this comes about because these principals toe party line and are given directives from their respective parties on what to vote and to stand against. This is where APC seems to look into.

3.what the constitution means by 'independence' of the legislature doesnt transform for them to go against party directives but not to be influenced by other arms of government i.e executive and judiciary. It is so sad the formers of the constitution has left a lot of pot holes in the constitution.

4. Saraki cannot appoint principal officers, majority members of the Ruling party are against those elected therefore it isn't the legislature who appointed them but Saraki.

At this point I think I have made my stance clear, if we don't agree on it, only means we attend different school of thought.

I have stated severally where I can,the success of unionism , nationalism largely depends on the joint effort , just like a strand of broom it is easy to break but a bunch of broom cannot be broken at ease. we are stronger as team,union than an individual . In as much as I like this young lads courage a blunder he made was not building a strong institution as against his strong personality. Aluta Continua , I hope those at the elms would come to your aid. #returneyisi

Dear Sir/Madam: Therefore, I, Noble Eyisi, the impeached and suspended Students’ Union Government President writes this letter as an appeal for justice in my case. I was elected the Students’ Union Government President on the 11th of December 2014 and was inaugurated on the 15th of December of that same year. After my election and the Christmas break, on the 5th of January, our government embarked on the reduction of transport fare in the university from N30 to N20. At first, it seemed an uphill task as the drivers went on strike but with time and by God’s grace, they were back and conformed to the new N20 transport scheme. This gave us a very good recommendation and applause from the university management, students and citizens of our state and country. To be candid, the reduction of the transport fare to N20 was a huge sacrifice from the part of the Students’ Union Government as I, the former president sacrificed the sum of N20,000 per day from the Transport Trust Fund (TTF), a sum of money collected by the SUG from drivers. This Transport Trust Fund (TTF) was illegal and unconstitutional as it extorted money from the students (the higher the TTF, the higher the transport fare). For the general students, it brought us love and goodwill as we have helped them save N10 whenever they board a bus, shuttle or keke but from my fellow executives, Students’ Representative Council members (though not inaugurated then) and the judiciary, it brought me hatred as they felt I took away their daily bread because they were supposed to benefit N8,000 daily from the illegal Transport Trust Fund (TTF). I was by God’s grace able to navigate the ship of SUG despite pressures to bring back the Transport Trust Fund (TTF) up until second semester.

Before the resumption of second semester, I called my fellow executives for a meeting where I pleaded with them and convinced them to buy into my idea of reducing the price of food from N200 to N150 inside the university campus. They all accepted and agreed to it, the food vendors were called and most of them accepted but due to the imminent first semester examinations, we weren’t able to begin implementation.

At the eve of second semester, I brought to the notice of the students our decision to bring down food price from N200 to N150, which they all loved, accepted and supported since it had been a cry in their hearts and it began working as most food vendors complied. But this policy was greeted by a strong university management resistance. The Vice-Chancellor called me expressing his dissatisfaction with it and asked me to make things right. I felt so sad but I had to obey my superior. So I rested my case, very much against my wish but my students felt that their rights, expressions and feelings were being trampled on. Even if it meant that the rent collected by the Commercial Ventures of the university from the food vendors be reduced, let it be, but let the interest of the general students be heard and protected.

Since the university management did not want the policy to see the light of the day, I felt so sad and decided to rest my case, but at the same time, my students still felt cheated. Despite the management’s high-handedness on them through increment of fees, institution of new fees, intimidation by university security agents etc, the management still wanted to extort money from them through the food prize. With the new implementation of dues by the management and other increments, the students began asking me questions relating to monies which they were asked to pay which was new in the system, increment in some fees and so on and this led me to write an 8-point letter to the Vice Chancellor asking him questions which my fellow students have been asking me. Please sir, find attached an exact copy of the letter I sent to the Vice Chancellor. (Attachment 1)

It may also please you to find out that there are still other issues which I did not point out in the letter which includes:

Increment in the General Studies (GS) fee of Year one students from N1,000 to N4,000
Increment in the Continuous Education Programme (CEP) school fees from N35,000 to N39, 800,
Payment of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) dues of N2,500 and yet there is no clinic, how much more obtaining free medical treatment; amongst many others which may still be hidden to me.

After I gave him the letter confidentially on the 4th of May, he called the management staff of the university, entire executives of the Students’ Union Government, the Speaker, Students’ Representative Council and the Chief Judge of the Students’ Judicial Council to a meeting where he countered the entire letter point by point. In the meeting which held on the 8th of May, my phone was seized from me and I was almost slapped and intimidated by words spoken by the management staff present in the meeting. I still felt unsatisfied with the response he gave us and unfortunately the letter got to other fellow students. While the whole situation grew tense, the Students’ Union Government bus under my care was seized from me, my friends were arrested and threatened and I too was threatened by the Personal Assistant to the Vice Chancellor. Please find attached a copy of this letter (Attachment 2). It is also important to note that the University management never gave me money for the maintenance of the SUG bus, though I have written to them on countless occasions, rather my parents had always provided me with the money with which I have continuously repaired and maintained it.

Meanwhile, instead of addressing the issue, the Vice-Chancellor instigated my fellow executives to sign a vote of no confidence against me where they accused me of a 5-count charge. It is also attached here sir (Attachment 3) and after the impeachment, I responded to the charges and sent them to the Vice Chancellor of which I am yet to get a reply to (Attachment 4). The response is also attached. My fellow executives also sued me to the Students’ Union Government Court on a three-count charge, based on why I brought down the transport fare from N30 to N20, why I removed the illegal and unconstitutional Transport Trust Fund (TTF) and why I reduced the price of food within the university which was all student-oriented.

While the whole situation was growing tense, I thought the Vice-Chancellor would have managed the situation well despite media reports, rather he mandated that I be removed quickly from office. Please sir, newspaper reports from this issue are also attached here (Attachment 5). The only condition he gave me to remain in office was to recant all I said in the letter by calling a press conference which I will address. I was suspended from being the Students’ Union Government President of the university on the 18 May, on a Monday, which was not the normal day the Students’ Representative Council was to sit. The suspension was unconstitutional and also on the 22 May, I was impeached. This was made possible by the Students’ Representative Council members who had strongly been influenced and bought over by the Vice Chancellor through their Heads of Departments, hence, they ensured I was impeached and more because they were threatened that disobedience would result to problems in their different courses. It will also please you, sir to note that the suspension as the Students’ Union Government President was done by the veto power of the Speaker as majority of the quorum of the House seated on that day were against it.

After my impeachment, students were really sad and feeling that their rights had been trampled on, peacefully protested. On the 3rd of June, a peaceful protest was conducted of which I was also part of. After the protest, I kept on attending lectures regularly and on Monday, 8 June, a court order was served to the Vice President and Speaker by the Anambra State High Court against my suspension as SUG President and impeachment. On the 11th of June, on entering the university, I was arrested in the university by a personal security aide to the Vice Chancellor. I was intimidated and from the Administration Block of the university, I was dragged into the security van of the university and taken to the State Security Service Headquarters of Anambra State located at Amawbia. There and then, the Director showed me my suspension letter and I was asked to pack my things immediately and leave the university and also that I should not be seen in the university until further notice. I was also asked to sign an undertaking to this which I did. I kept on asking for a copy of my suspension letter but no one gave it to me. Accompanied by security agents of the university, I packed my things and left.

It will also please you to note sir, that on the morning of 11th, a circular had already been shared to all the security agents in the university that I should not be seen in the university as I had been suspended. It was given to them by the Chief Security Officer of the University. All this happened even with an order of the Anambra State High Court which I had with me. Please find attached the statements of the court order (Attachment 6) and the Chief Security Officer’s circular (Attachment 7).

All through my stay as the Students’ Union Government President from December up until May, it had been a selfless service. The only amount of money I had ever received from our SUG account which should be autonomous was N70,000 which served as my take-off grant. It came weeks after we had written a letter to that effect and ever since then I have never received any of my entitlements as the SUG President. Even a transport route in the university which the SUG ought to be in charge of as an Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for the welfare of the students was high jacked by a personal security aide to the Vice Chancellor, Mr. Anayo Anizoba and when I brought up the issue, the wife of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Gladys Ahaneku called me and asked me to take 40% of the money and leave the remaining 60% to the security aide which I disagreed to.

Finally, in a country where people’s rights are being trampled upon, I still believe that justice must be upheld. I’m a very young, patriotic Nigerian citizen of this great country who decided to serve my country in the capacity of Students’ Union Government Presidency of my university, and all through my service in office, I have fought selflessly for the rights and privileges of my students. I don’t deserve to be kicked out of the university considering the fact that I have not been involved in any illegal practices or misconduct. All I have done was for the best interest of the students and for the good of my country. I sincerely and desperately appeal to you as a father to look with pity upon me and consider my case as I have no one else to run to. Thank you very much sir for your time, understanding and resolution to intervene on my behalf. God bless you.


Comrade Noble Eyisi

Department of Political Science

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

raumdeuter:
There is nothing with federal character, Its strictly an Internal party affair. The party is the majority. If they like they can make all their position to one state or even family

A MAJORITY leader is chosen strictly by the party that has the MAJORITY in the house.

What if APC has no rep from 2 or 3 regions in the country while they are still the MAJORITY so how would Federal character come into it?

E.g When ACN was the minority party and it didnt have any senator from like 3 zones, How did it fill the posts that are designated for minority party?

you couldnt have stated it more clearly i have told this man federal Character he is clamouring about he knows nothing of

byrron:
Are you now saying that APC rules now overrides the parliamentary convention and extant provisions of the senate standing orders ( chapter VI;Rules 28, 29 & 31)?

can u pls answer the above unambiguous question?

please he is foremost a member of a political party in this case it is the APC before he could have been a legislator, yes his party manifesto should be his supreme ideology. He should confer the both as allies and unite them , it is just simple tenets of leadership but again he isnt a leader so I wouldn't be expecting much from him.

The legalization of same sex marriage in America and the world as a macrocosm is a case for the egalitarians against the Religious leftist.

I understand just how you feel , quite sorry about that but most of these bankers have grown this kind of attitude not to take it away from some that are extremely virtuous but some are just way not worth being employed, they are just everywhere, I please want employers to train their staff in human relations as some lack every bit of it.

byrron:
Are you now saying that APC rules now overrides the parliamentary convention and extant provisions of the senate standing orders ( chapter VI;Rules 28, 29 & 31)?


whilst one is strongly persuaded to toe party line and act in accordance with the suggested party position, regrettably, clear provisions of our extant rules and standard parliamentary convention have not given APC that leeway to act otherwise.

We both know only if we refuse to accept the fact that actions of Saraki are not grounded and were never motivated from the basis of legislative independence.

Samchelsea:
Congrats to them but I can't find his wife because during Jonathan's tenure, he was always side by side with his during church service......Interestingly my friend just told me women always stays at the back row during Muslim prayers and that I don't seem to understand why, are women now less important during prayers?

May the forgiveness of Allah be upon you. Don't criticize that which you understand not

Spybradd:
well 4q! Absolute bulshiit. If tambouwal (whatever that means) did it in da last dispensation n u hypocrites smiles while quoting all da goddamm laws,then saraki n dogara aint no exception....u gotta live with n dance to it.
Whats gud 4 da goddamm goose is gud for gaddemm gander..
U sure got ur head on ur shoulders,op.

dont come here with sentiments, i am not here based on affiliations but best practices, party ambitions and manifestos determined the political plan of a certain society. That what makes the difference between the Liberals and democrats till you acknowledge a good system and emulate it only then would we move. cheers mate

The NASS isn't independent neither is the executive , they were elected under a party and hence should and always ply party path . Should they enact a law prohibiting legislature in future from belonging to parties just like the judiciary then we would say they are independent till then adhere to party hierarchy and manifesto

HzRF:
Here we go again sidelining our laws Nd follow the whites
I don't give a hoot about hw USA does Itz thing am concerned about how Nigeria is govern Cuz it affects me
And it surprises me that sum are shouting party suprememacy over laws enacted b4 most of the lawmakers even conceived d idea of going to NASS to rep

The Legislative is independent as our Constitution stipulated and a party that claims "change" should enforce nt repudiate this

Principal officers should reflect Federal character as postulated in 1999 Constitution. And Itz left to d Caucus produced under the party to choose who they deem fit to take d position allocated to dia zone

This what d law approved and Itz should be made to stand forth

Even if it help conceived and nurture some people ambition once it within the bandwidth of the laws it should be celebrated
We should start making our laws a must to be acknowledge

Allowing our laws to be benched Lyk ameobi will make common man to continue suffering

You talk what you don't understand . You can as well reject the whole "constitution" you are an advocate of here after all is was remodeled after the "white people's" own. Federal character my foot !

The rate and depth at which we juxtapose in the country is nothing but a farce.

nigerianvenom:
Tinubu was single handedly nutured by chieftains of AD and selected to be governor in '99,but he turned around to betray them.

Pls don't give me generalization give me names and be good with your tale on how he "betrayed" them .

HzRF:
Is apc d only party that is in the Senate
Hw can u tell others to abide by ur stance Cuz u are d majority
Legislative is(should) be Independent d party only produce credible (in our imagination) pple once you knw he is nt credible dem deny him ticket
D party has no say whatsoever on the happenings in NASS if our law is to followed to the letters
Nd Dogara Nd Saraki is already part of apc leadership
Were they there wen he(NWC
=TINUBU) choose to those people which dey are nt empowered to do by d law
Order 28(1)D principal officers shall be nominated FROM the party
If you are truly honest with Ur campaign promises den u must nt indulge in "impunity"

Surely by your response, you don't know how the legislative arm works,go study that of U.S and see why people differ in the electing democrats or liberals in the house and executive . Cheers mate