Patriotic Nigerians cannot be alarmed at the vicious gang-up by legislators of the National Assembly against the Executive because they never hid their covetous character when they forcefully seized the administration of the hallowed chambers on 8th June, 2015, in a manner reminiscent of political gangsterism!

In the past 32 months of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration, opportunists APC Federal Legislators have engaged the PRESIDENCY in heated muscle-flexing, ego competition and vicious political confrontations in spite of the fact that they all rode on the wings of President Muhammadu Buhari's untainted character, dignified antecedent, popular acceptability and charisma, during the 2015 general elections to clinch unmerited seats at red and green chambers respectively!

They began their rebellion by rejecting Party's Supremacy with impunity but connived with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), legislators to swear-in principal officers of National Assembly (NASS), at the Senate and the House of Representatives Chambers respectively! From then on they remained at dagger-drawn; opposed and criticized every Executive action or Bill - including budgetary presentations, as if they were not APC card-carrying members who have majority seats in both chambers!
Presently they have vowed not to deliberate on any request for confirmation of appointees of the Executive until the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, was replaced and have been deliberately foot-dragging on the oversight of the 2018 Budget estimates by anchoring on a flimsy excuse that the 2017 Budget was yet to be fully implemented! If they were genuine/patriotic democrats of the APC and without HIDDEN AGENDA, should they have been so confrontational and pretentious of the myriads of socio-economic challenges on ground when the Party took over the mantle of a government with an almost EMPTY TREASURY and a GLARING RECESSION even as at 29th May, 2015?

Although the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on 9th March, 2017, released a time-table for the 2019 general elections in the following order: Presidential/National Assembly (NASS), elections to come first on Saturday 16th February, 2019, while the Governorship and State Assembly/Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Council elections were to hold on Saturday 2nd March, 2019, (i.e. two weeks later), these overzealous federal legislators nullified the independent status of the electoral body by taking over their functions!
On 6th February, 2018 , they hurried amendment of Section 25 of the 2010 Electoral Act by both Chambers saw the light of the day and exposed their selfish motive aimed at SECURING THEIR OWN SEATS BEFORE PRESIDENT BUHARI, ON WHOSE POPULARITY THEY RODE INTO POLITICAL LIME LIGHT AND RECKONING IN 2015 AND HAVE NOW HATCHED A DIABOLICAL PLAN TO UNSEAT HIM BY JOINING FORCES WITH HIS MULTITUDE OF DETRACTORS!

NASS ELECTION IS NOW IN THE NUMBER ONE SLOT; to be followed by the Gubernatorial/State Assemblies and LASTLY, the Presidential, because the legislators claimed to have the "constitutional right" to re-order ELECTIONS according to Section 4, sub-section 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria but forgot that their legislative function was to MAKE LAWS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE AND NOT TO MUTILATE LAWS FOR SELFISH REASONS AS IT NOW STANDS!

According to Section 76 of the 1999 Constitution which empowers INEC to fix dates and conduct elections, the Electoral body had on 9th March, 2017 announced the dates which placed the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FIRST, only for the House of Representatives to raise objections which led to the ILLEGALITY WHICH CONSTITUTED AN ENCROACHMENT/INFRINGEMENT ON THE INDEPENDENCE AND RIGHTS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND ITS MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES (MDAs)!

WHAT THESE 8TH NASS LEGISLATORS HAVE DONE TO INEC's TIME-TABLE IS TANTAMOUNT TO DOCUMENT- PADDING LIKE THEY HAD DONE TO PAST EXECUTIVE BUDGETS FROM 2016-2017!
There is no part of the 1999 Constitution which permits legislators to REMOVE, INSERT, RE-WRITE, RE-PHRASE, RE-INVENT, OR RE-CREATE EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS FORWARDED TO THEM FOR OVERSIGHT FUNCTIONS IN VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS, BUT THEY ALWAYS OVERSTEPPED THEIR BOUNDS!
At best, they could make observations and request the AUTHOR to amend and re-forward! It was high time the Executive tested these obnoxious and attitudinal excesses of the recalcitrant legislators at the APEX COURT FOR LEGAL ADJUDICATION! If the legislators were not very selfish meddlesome interlopers, should they overheat the polity in a matter that was the exclusive preserve of INEC and even threaten to veto Mr. President if he refused assent to their obnoxious bill after 30 days of submission according to constitutional provisions?

THE POTTER'S CLAY EFFIGIES ARE ABOUT TO TAKE A SWIM!!
Let us imagine that these greedy legislators were not attracted to NIGERIAN POLITICS because of the perks of office and largess of FINANCIAL INDUCEMENT of this Presidential system which has turned pauperish politicians into multi-millionaires and billionaires within few months of EMPOLYMENT, while those they pretend to represent wallow in abject poverty.......
Let us also imagine that they did not allocate to themselves outrageous annual sums of extra-budgetary salaries, wardrobe, vehicle and sitting allowances, including gratuities/pensions, etc; of between N120-150 billion, to be paid to them and those who would not be re-elected at the end of every FOUR-YEAR-TERM; would there have been any need, for that aggressive struggle to remain a legislator at all cost?

Before Nigerian politicians, especially the current legislators decided to DIE IN OFFICE because of outrageous financial inducement deliberately created through the COPY-CAT MENTALITY of mimicking United States Presidential System of Government, let the ELECTORATE make up their minds to VOTE THEM OUT IN THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS, NOW THAT THE CHARLATANS HAVE ENVIABLY AND SURREPTITIOUSLY TAKEN OVER THE "FIRST POSITION" IN THE ORDER OF ELECTION PRIORITY!

DO YOU KNOW THAT A NIGERIAN LEGISLATOR EARNS HIGHER SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES THAN HIS COUNTERPART IN THE UNITED STATES AND EVEN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT?
In view of this ugly development, we advocate that all CIVIL SOCIETY/NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS, should lay emphasis on civil and voter education through all available media outlets especially - THE SOCIAL MEDIA - which is accessible to the poor masses who have been short-changed for too long so that they would exercise their electoral franchise with their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), in the right direction!
Urgent steps should also be taken by the EXECUTIVE to enforce the CONSTITUTIONAL SALARY STRUCTURE FOR THE LEGISLATURE AS CONTAINED IN THE REVENUE MOBILISATION ALLOCATION AND FISCAL COMMISSION (RMAFC), REMUNERATION applicable to political office holders because these legislators are being intoxicated by TOO MUCH MONEY!

SOME FAILED POLITICIANS ARE SEARCHING FOR DIGITAL YOUTH LEADERS IN NIGERIA!
Do they have to search very far? Digital youth leaders have been ruling Nigeria since 15th, January 1966! All the military coup leaders, Head of States, Governors and Administrators who ruled Nigeria with IRON FIST, for about THIRTY YEARS were all in their twenties and early thirties and they were VERY DIGITAL!

In 1999 when they eventually relinquished power, they handed over to digital civilian governors, most of whom were in their early thirties and the elected President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who was just about 52 years old! These digital generations are still very much around and are still trying very hard to build prominence around themselves by claiming to have solution to all political/socio economic problems! DO YOU BELIEVE THEM? WE DON'T!

Let us rise up as a nation of GOOD PEOPLE, with to support PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, THE AFRICAN CHAMPION IN THE WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION AND TOGETHER, BUILD DIGITAL/VIABLE INSTITUTIONS RATHER THAN CORRUPT/GREEDY PERSONALITIES!
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." (Psalm. 34:19).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.