As Nigerians prepare for the election of leaders of 9th National Assembly, a former member of the Federal House of Representatives in the 7th Assembly has called on the current members to reject every attempt by outsiders to influence, coerce or manipulate them to do their bidding in the selection or election of their leaders.
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Mohammed Shamsidin Ango Abdullahi who represented Birnin Gwari/Giwa Federal Constituency during the 7th Assembly reiterated that “the National Assembly is a constitutional arm of government in the Democratic presidential system of government we operate in Nigeria”.
Speaking with Independent, Hon. Shamsidin noted that “The House rule guides members of the National Assembly in the conduct of its affairs”.
According to him, “The people have voted members to represent them in the National Assembly and as such, their representation must reflect the will of the people they represent”.
Members must not be coerced, manipulated or enticed to support so called leaders from outside the National Assembly who have no vote in the election of leaders of the House of Representatives.
“The Chambers of the National Assembly does not have a party, members even though elected on their respective parties but elected representatives to do the bidding of the people of Nigeria”.
“I call on these elected members to do the needful by shunning the interest of the so called party leaders, governors who all claim that they are acting on behalf of the president and act whole heartedly with the conscious of Allah to select leaders who will truly represent the people at the national level without fear or favour and ensure development in all sphere of economic social and political life”, he stated.
Also speaking on his expectations from Mr. President in his second term, the former Reps member said he cannot speak for the president or his party.
According to him, “I believe Nigerians have their say as I am PDP and I voted for Atiku and I pray Allah In His Infinite Mercy will give us back our mandate in the court, Insha Allah”.
Shamsidin said it is very unfortunate democracy is becoming less and less about the people in the government of APC.
While commenting on the security situation in the country, the former legislator posited that the insecurity we face in the country is man-made.
According to him; “To the best of my knowledge, the insecurity we face in Nigeria is man-made. It is a by-product of injustice and lack of economic and social planning”.
“The human development of the people of Nigeria has been deteriorating with the coming of the 4th democratic republic in Nigeria. The constitution needs to be amended to resolve quite a number of issues to move Nigeria forward. These amendments must be seen to have a sense of total inclusion of the people of Nigeria that will promote healthy competition”.
Commenting on the call for restructuring, the former member said issues like local government reforms both financial and political, must be addressed to ensure people in the local governments benefit from the resources of excess crude account, federation account, the state itself and the ecological funds.
“Section 7: 162,197 will always support the interest of the governors and favour, say ill willed governors who take away from the people, resources meant for their medical, educational, agricultural and infrastructural development in the local areas”.
“The FIU cannot oversight the resources of the local government councils because the FIU is not constitutionally mandated to do that and just like the former Governor of Zamfara said, it’s unconstitutional for the FIU to do so, even with the presumed good intent of the FIU”.
“Leadership is key in national development and using the Great Men Theory of Thomas Carlyle, it is evident that our leaders of today, unlike the founding fathers of Nigeria, lack honesty, integrity, commitment and will, with the honest spirituality to really move Nigeria forward in spite of the ethnic, religious, economic and social differences retrogressing the built up of our founding fathers”, he stated.
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