Gbajabiamila’s dissection of the 9th Reps’ legislative agenda

The tradition of putting up a legislative agenda became popular from the 7th assembly of the House of Representatives, and has been sustained by successive assemblies. JOSHUA EGBODO reviews the thoughts of Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila on how far the current house has gone with its set goals.

The platform

The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), in the second edition of its annual lecture series tagged: ‘Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture’, which held Monday in Abuja named Gbajabiamila the guest lecturer at the event.

And in the words of Director General of the Institute, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, the lecture was organised to serve as a platform where National Assembly members could tell their stories of accomplishments as well as challenges, and make legislative processes clearer to Nigerians.

True to that, in the view of many analysts, it was an opportunity and a platform which Speaker Gbajabiamila used to offer…