To proffer solutions to the constant rifts, Henry Eni-Otu, a lawyer, advised the newly inaugurated lawmakers to synergize with the executive, proposing a committee made up of both parties to deliberate issues of national interest.
"If necessary, they (the legislature) should have a committee that will liaise with the executive at all times with respect to budgetary preparation and also the issue in respect to the time within which the budget is passed and how it should run," the legal luminary said.
RELEVANCE OF NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The Nigerian Senate and the House of Representatives make up the legislature, but they are fundamentally different in a few ways.
The Senate has 109 members representing the 36 states, with each Nigerian state having three senatorial districts. Only the capital Abuja has one Senator, but not without having the same power and representation in the Senate as every other state.
The House of Representatives has a total of 360 members, with each state divided into federal constituencies. All these constituencies add up to 360 seats.
They both exist to provide checks and balances within government, to protect the interests of the country and the citizens, and to ensure proper consideration and vetting of federal laws and functioning of the other arms of government.
No bill can become law unless a majority of the people, represented by the House of Representatives, and a majority of the senatorial districts, represented by the Senate, vote in favor of it becoming a federal law.
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