The Honourable Member, representing the Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives has disclosed that the President took the right decision by delegating authority and naming Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to act in his stead.
Honorable Olatoye Sugar, who was the guest at the South West Group of Online Publishers’ Breakfast Media Chat explained that “there is what we call hierarchy and when you talk of hierarchy, we have the Chairman of the National Assembly, who is spearheading all affairs, that is the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki and in the House of Representatives, we have Rt Honourable Yakubu Dogara.
“They have started working on how the whole country will be able to know what is going on. I also want to use this opportunity to tell you that the President has the right to go on vacation and outside the leave, he has the right according to law to go for other functions outside his leave and the law allows the President to be away for 21 days”.
The lawmaker, who doubles as the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Urban Development and Regional Planning also confirmed that because of the three-week recess being observed by the House to treat the budget, “there is no avenue for Honourable members to sit down and dialogue about the issues you are asking about the President. I am just telling you this individually that I believe the President has 21 days to go anywhere he wants at any time and before he left, he handed over to the Vice President, which is the right step.
“Aside this, he wrote to the National Assembly that he was going on leave for 10 days, and after the 10 days, he sent in another letter. It is because we are not in session that it has not been read formally on the floor of the House”
Speaking on the performance of the All Progressives Congress administration and the budget, he said “most of these things that are happening did not just start. They have been in existence prior to this period. To rebuild, is hard, look at this edifice, very fantastic but as fine as it is, for a bulldozer to pull down this building, it won’t take up to an hour. But to rebuild, you may not even finish in one year if you don’t have all what it takes at hand. That is what is happening now”.
In his welcome address, the SWEGOP Chairman, Olayinka Agboola, opined that the National Assembly needs to be more responsive to the yearnings of Nigerians. “There are so many issues that Nigerians had hoped you and your colleagues would be more alert to”, Agboola told Honourable Olatoye.
The Chairman also urged Honourable Olatoye to “tell others that much is expected of the National Assembly because there is agony in the land, Nigerians are suffering”.
