The worst evil “those who conducted the last election did to Nigeria,” Utomi said, was “to put in place a National Assembly that is 10 times inferior to the one we had before. All the Nigerian National Assembly does (except, perhaps, when it is engaged in one of its several self-serving conflicts with the executive) is to extend generous incentive to the executive to celebrate its insufferable ineptitude and directionlessness with indecent fanfare. Nothing seems to change in our National Assembly, whether it is their strange mindset or the way their leaders are always handpicked by external forces and imposed on them. In fact, given the quality of the National Assembly Nigeria is cursed with, we may need to commend the president for resisting the temptation to totally become another Idi Amin, because, from all available evidence, there is just no Assembly with the requisite will and patriotism to scuttle such a vile ambition. Ejinkeonye, a Lagos-based public affairs analyst sent in this article before the inauguration of the Ninth National Assembly.

Source: The Guardian June 19, 2019 03:31 UTC