New Jet: Tinubu didn’t get National Assembly’s approval — Senator
by The Eagle Online · The Eagle OnlineThe representative of Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said that President Bola Tinubu did not get the approval of the National Assembly to buy a new presidential jet.
The senator spoke on a Channels Television programme: “Politics Today,” on Monday on the controversial purchase of the jet.
The Eagle Online recalls that following the controversy over the purchase of the presidential jet, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, explained that the Airbus A330 purchased for President Tinubu in August was a used and “refurbished” one.
Abaribe, however, said the National Assembly had no knowledge of the purchase of the jet.
He said on Politics Today on Monday: “I am in the National Assembly, but I can tell you for a fact that nobody, quote me, nobody brought anything to the National Assembly to say please approve this for purchase of a new plane.
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“It was done without my knowledge.
“Nobody brought anything.
“I never saw any document and I have always been in the National Assembly.
“Ask anyone, none.”
Abaribe said that the failure of the Presidency to approach the National Assembly with a request means that part of the job of the legislator to be a check on the executive is not being efficiently carried out.
He said he is worried that the public perceives the National Assembly members as rubber-stamps, adding that it is like that because the lawmakers feel that they have fought a lot, yet it has not yielded much to the public and tried to have some cooperation with the executive.
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