𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝’ — 𝐀𝐃𝐂 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬

By George OPARA

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, National Legislatures Forum, on Tuesday told President Bola Tinubu-led regime not to take the party’s kind temperament for granted.

At the forum’s press conference in Abuja, a former member of the House of Representatives, Chile Igbawua, warned that the ADC is not begging but asking the judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to carry out its duties.

In Igbawua ‘s words, “Agreed that the ADC has been as humane as the opposition political party can be but I would like to sound a note of warning that this government should not take that for weakness. We are not begging, we are simply asking everybody to do what they are supposed to do. The judiciary and electoral umpire should do their work as they are assigned.

“As it stands, ADC doesn’t have confidence in INEC as it’s presently constituted. It’s surprising that the head of the legislature has become a press secretary to the INEC Chairman that when accusations are done against him, he sit there in the other arm of government to defend him just like he defends other functionaries in the executives.”

The lawmaker also accused Senate President Godswill Akpbio of destroying the Nigerian legislature, explaining that the forum is ashamed of the current National Assembly.

He added: “We know that Akpabio has destroyed the legislature and we are ashamed to say so, we were there and we knew what we did when occasion demanded.

“We are ashamed of what we see there today but we believe that those who think that they have a field day should know that they don’t, they will all give account if anybody tries to mess up the democracy; he will account for it personally and corporately.