Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Tajudeen Abbas has written off critics who think his emergence as Speaker of the 10th National Assembly would
Abbas, who met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu shortly after his election at the National Assembly, on Tuesday, said the House, which he would be presiding over, would stand to challenge the executive if it finds things are going against the interests of the public.
Asked to react to his emergence as Speaker, which first appeared bleak, he said, “I don’t know what you mean by bleak, but what I can tell you is that right from day one, when we started this campaign, it was always good. But the impact of social media propaganda of some of the contestants distorted the entire picture of what was on the ground.
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