THE NATION
The House of Representatives will not be a rubber stamp in the hands of the executive, Speaker Tajudeen Abass has assured.
He said the legislators will move against the executives should the latter work against the public interest.
Abbas, who said this while speaking to journalists at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday, also said the wide acceptability, depicted by the cross-party support during his election put a lie to the picture previously painted that he was being imposed by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Abass with Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu visited President Bola Tinubu at the Villa after they emerged a few hours earlier.
Responding to a question about the House they would be presiding over being a rubber stamp, Abass said: “If you talk about rubber stamp, look at the acceptance rate, those who have elected those across party lines, almost all the whole entire PDP, SDP, ADC and all other minority parties voted us.
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