What you are about to read is the jinx between Clarity and Ambiguity, Congruency and Incongruency in Nigeria’s Law making mechanisms.
The National Assembly is Nigeria’s law making body comprising of a Lower legislative chamber also called the House of Representatives and an Upper legislative Chamber called the Senate.
In Nigeria’s tenth (10th) Parliamentary session, it has been observed that the Lower Legislative Chamber headed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt.Honourable Tajudeen Abbas is more poignant, patented, particular, unobtrusive, clear, universal, unambiguous, cognitive and highly respectful of the demands and wishes of the Nigerian people in serious critical law making fundamentals that affects the corporate existence of Nigeria as far as the details of legislative performance in the tenth (10th) diet is concerned.
However, in the tenth (10th) Parliamentary session of the Upper Chamber or the Senate, headed by Distinguished Senator Godswil Akpabio as President of the Senate, it is in public domain that law making functions have become disputational, conspiratorial, obtrusive, divisive, unimpressive, controversial, ambiguous, retrogressive, redundant, repulsive and highly regrettable.
Tajudeen Abbas is leader of a legislative Chamber of about three hundred and fifty (350) young people who are mostly green horns, inexperienced but committed Parliamentarians willing to learn and do the demands of good governance through deliberate and effective law making persuasions.
However, Godswil Akpabio as leader of the Senate that comprises one hundred and nine (109) experienced, aged, technocratic, impulsive, didactic, highly educated and tested leaders who have served in previous capacities as State Governors, Deputy Governors, Captains of industries, retired civil servants, retired veterans and fulbright scholars are superintending law making functions to the disregard and hurting to the Nigerian people they ineffectually represent with disdain.
Five instances of senatorial indiscretions or derelictions can be pointed out:
Presidential Travels
It is in the public domain that Nigeria’s President has spent more time outside the country on personal visits that have lasted beyond his constitutionally approved official annual vacation and the Senate is not raising a finger against this constitutional breach.
National Debt And External Borrowings
Nigeria’s total debt stock according to the Debt Management Office (DMO) as at December 2025 is estimated at about one hundred and fifty (150) Trillion naira and the bulk of such debt instruments were approved by this tenth (10th) Senate without proper scrutiny of what those loans were being used for and their impact on the national economy and living standards of Nigerians.
All we are regailed with is semantics like debt to revenue ratio is positive and debt to GDP cap is still within safety limits.
This is the language of the marines that does not make sense to suffering Nigerians neither does that put food on the table of the common man.
Party Defections, One Party State And Constitutional Helplessness.
As we speak, the APC that “won” the election in 2023 with less than 35% of total votes cast is now controlling 90% of all political structures in Nigeria through coercive Presidential maneuverings and armtwist gestures with the tacit connivance of the Senate and complete annihilation of opposition political Parties through contrived insurrections, judicial absurdities and constitution incapacitation.
Instead of the Senate to do the needful by amending relevant sections of the 1999 constitution as amended to stem the tide of party defections and defend Nigeria’s nascent democracy from cataclysmic hijack by hawkish political predators, the Senate rather absconded from amending the constitution to save Nigeria’s democracy.
The Unfortunate Forged Tax Law Reform
After having passed a well thought out National Tax Law reform to address fiscal imbalances and reposition Nigeria’s Tax revenue propensities, a Law passed by the National Assembly was criminally tampered with by *unknown political gun men (UPGM)* that resulted in gazzetting a forged Tax Law for implementation in Nigeria in this 21st century.
Rather than Nigeria’s Senate unmask and punish the unknown political gun men that committed this serious economic treason, the Senate went on recess and had their private accounts credited from above.
If only the Senate knew the meaning of OFFICIAL GAZETTE as a very dangerous precedent has been set in Nigeria’s governance procedures by default and inaction.
Electoral Law Amendment Incongruity
Whereas the Lower house, headed by Tajudeen Abbas went straight to do the correct amendment demanded by Nigerians for putting in place a seamless process of free, transparent and credible elections in Nigeria, Godswill Akpabio’s Senate took Nigeria’s Election amendment law for riddles and jokes with the intent to create constitutional lacuna that will strengthen and enforce rigging in the 2027 election and return Nigeria to future talks about new election amendment endlessly.
Nigerians are demanding mandatory, real time, online transmission of election results entrenched in the Electoral Law.
And not the Senate’s version of transfer of election results and resort to manual collation if technology fails.
All secret cash transfers made from above to the private accounts of National Assembly members have never failed nor returned uncredited.
And the Senate is saying that this technology that does not fail in secret cash transfers will certainly fail in election results rendition.
Tajudeen Abbas and his House of Representatives have done this Electoral law amendment clearly, consciously and committedly.
But Godswill Akpabio and his Senate are doing this Electoral amendment law dubiously, doubtfully and disgracefully to the angst of all well meaning Nigerians that are looking forward to enthroning a good, legitimate and acceptable national leadership that will steer Nigeria away from doomsday and disintegration.
Nigerians have come to the point whereby they may demand for the abolition of the Senate and retain only the House of Representatives as the required and authentic Legislative body in Nigeria going forward.
Enough of this childs play and toying with Nigeria’s destiny that have become the vogue in the in this tenth (10th) Senate.
This tenth (10th) Senate is not what Nigerians voted for but has become an armchair midwife servicing the predilections, intents and purposes of an overbloated Presidency that is bent on retaining power by hook or crook through crippling, confusing, containing and caging the tenth (10th) Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
God save Nigeria.
Steve Nwabuko.
