President Muhammadu Buhari met with Senate President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, on Tuesday.
The lawmakers arrived at the presidential villa in Abuja, at 12pm.
The leaders of the National Assembly met with the president behind close doors for 40 minutes.
Mr. Saraki told State House correspondents that they specifically “came to discuss issues and activities of the National Assembly during the absence of the president”.
He said the meeting centred on the “budget, the economy, CBN, Euro bond, the issue of the ambassadorial list, the stability in the Niger Delta, and a whole range of issues”.
On his perception of the president’s state of health, the senate president said Mr. Buhari met with them for 40 minutes, adding “I was not talking to myself.? He is doing very well, we discussed issues of national interest”.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dogara said they were not at the villa to assess the president’s health.
He said the journalists who are always there surely knew the president was doing well.
On the relationship between the executive and legislature, Mr. Dogara said it was not in the place of the legislature to fight the executive.
“We fight on issues but mostly issues of national interest. We fight on behalf of the people for the purpose of progress.
“There is one government and no division. If he fails, we all fail, so it is in realisation of this that we always extend the needed support to ensure that he succeeds, so that the government will be rated as a success,” he said.
