The senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on national assembly matters (senate), Ita Enang, has said the President will respect the rule of law by not interfering with the leadership of the national assembly.
Enang, who disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Abuja, said the president will respect the rule of law and allow the legislators do their work.
Some lawmakers, including Ovie Omo-Agege, senator representing Delta central and Abdulmumin Jibrin, lawmaker representing Kiru/Bebeji federal constituency of Kano in the house of reps, had earlier said the president would determine who will become the next senate president.
“The principle of President Muhammadu Buhari is that each arm of government should function according to what the constitution says which, is that every person in government should do the right thing,” he said.
“He (Buhari) will not go beyond what the constitution allows him and every arm of government should stick to its constitutional responsibilities.”
Enang also urged the incoming lawmakers to facilitate the passage of bills such as the 2019 budget.
According to him, “the budget of the 64 different federal government owned agencies are still pending before the national parliament.
“Unless the budgets of the different agencies are considered and passed, we still have a lot to lose in terms of opportunities for employment in those ministries and some capital projects which would have increased government spending or the spending of the various agencies and parastatals,” he said.
“The executive is ready with all the system to come in and defend the budget. We have in advance, worked with the committee on appropriation to determine a time table for the defence of their budgets.”
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