House
of Representatives Speaker,Yakubu Dogara on Monday described the crisis
between the legislature and the executive as unavoidable.
Buhari, Dogara, Saraki
We reported earlier today
that President Muhammadu Buhari was locked currently in a closed-door
meeting with the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Yakubu
Dogara, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
While addressing State House reporters after meeting with President
Buhari, Speaker Dogara described the crisis between the legislature and
the executive as unavoidable.
The speaker who said the crisis was an opportunity for both arms of
government to begin afresh, also viewed the crisis as an opportunity to
set new boundaries, examine things in a new way.
While commenting on the rift between the executive and the Senate
over Magu, Dogara said the legislature and the executive could only be
remembered for solving problems, not avoiding them.
"You might look at it as crisis, but I don't look at it as
crisis. You know I've always said that as a government, our value will
be the problems we have solved. We can't be remembered for avoiding or
running away from problems.
"It is only when we provide solutions to some of the things
you refer to as crisis and we look at it as opportunities to begin the
new that people will now remember us for putting down enduring legacies.
But when we run away from everything that appears to be trouble,we will
not make it," he said.