Those Calling Us Rubber Stamp Senate Are Right, Says PDP Senator, Gives Reasons

The Senator who represents Adawama South, Binos Yeroe, says he agrees with critics that labelled the 9th National Assembly as a rubber stamp parliament.

Critics labelled the 9th parliament as such due to what has been regarded as frequent approval to requests of the executive.

Speaking at the 9th Senate valedictory session on Saturday, Yeroe said those criticising the 9th Assembly as a rubber stamp of the executive were right.

He said the manner in which the N22.7 trillion CBN Ways and Means Advances to the Federation was approved by the National Assembly justified the rubber stamp label.

He said, “I agree with those who say the ninth Senate is rubberstamp. Furthermore, the suspension of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele and subjecting him to investigation is a mild indictment of the National Assembly. This is so because if we had done our oversight duties properly, we would not have gotten to this level.

“I hope the 10th Senate will take its job as the watchdog of the executive more seriously.”

However, Senator Uba Sani (APC, Kaduna), who has now been sworn in as the Governor of Kaduna State, disagreed, saying people were wrong in tagging the National Assembly as rubber stamp parliament.