THE National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State of thwarting the democratic aspirations of the very people he claims to govern.
Reacting to the unfolding political development in the state, especially the blockade of the State House of Assembly and removal of its roof ostensibly for repairs, Tinubu said the governor “resorted to the strong-arm tactics of dictators.”
“In effect, the man has spent state funds to thwart the very apparatus of the state government he was sworn to uphold. He has squandered public money to defeat the very will of the public. This is tragic beyond words. “As a Governor, he ought to know better than to obstruct the functioning of his own legislature, but perhaps he is in need of a quick lesson.“The legislative function is, perhaps, the most foundational obligation of any government. In the UK, the Parliament was famously said to be “that supreme and absolute power, which gives life and motion to the English government”.
“It is, in short, not to be toyed with as a plaything of an errant and ill-disciplined governor. Undermine the legislature and you imperil democracy and allow governance to descend into anarchy.” “One can only wonder, given the desperation with which he has acted and his belligerent refusal to honour the free choice of the people of his own state, what mortal offence the majority members he has shut out have committed to warrant such treatment.
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