NASS welcomes President's peace moves with 'open arms'

Gbenga Bada 06:25 - 31 March 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari meets with Senate President, Bukola Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, March 14, 2017.

The senate revealed that it had accepted the peace moves by the President to end the clashes between the Executive and the Legislature.

The Nigerian Senate has said it had welcomed President Muhammadu Buharis peace moves “with open arms.”

According to a report by Punch Newspaper, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Sabi Abdullahi made this known on Thursday, March 30, 2017.

Abdullahi, in his reaction, said, “We have heard about the initiative by President Muhammadu Buhari in setting up a Presidential Committee on Executive-Legislature Relations to be headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.

“It is a good step in the right direction. The Senate, in particular, and the National Assembly in general, is ready to cooperate with the group and work with them to resolve all grey areas standing on the way of the smooth working relationship needed to deepen our fledgling democracy and ensure good governance for the benefits of Nigerians.”

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On Wednesday, March 30, 2017, Buhari had made the move aimed at improving the relationship between the two arms of government.

At the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the President was reported to have set up a cabinet committee that would proffer a solution to the crisis.