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Activist lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, on Tuesday described the Senate President Godswill Akpabio-led National Assembly as political bandits.
Adeyanju said the Akpabio-led National Assembly does not have the interest of Nigerians at heart.
He spoke in an interview on News Central while reacting to the tear gassing of protesters by the police.
According to Adeyanju: “It’s very ironic that we had a group in support of the evil that the National Assembly is doing and they were not teargassed, the group, a pro-manual transmission of results were not teargassed, there was a pro-government protest at EFCC and they were not teargassed but the anti-government one was teargassed, the anti-manual transmission were teargassed at the National Assembly.
“Protest is a fundamental human rights, it’s not a crime, I don’t understand why there would be a result to the use of force as long as the people are not being violent, are not taking the procedure into their hands and there is a procedure under our laws that a protest can move to riot.
“The only reason why I’m not protesting now is that the likes of Akpabio of this world are in charge of the National Assembly. I can’t in all good conscience go to the street and be asking Akpabio to do the right thing when I know for a fact that he does not have the character of a person to do the right thing.
“This current National Assembly are political bandits, they do not have the interest of Nigerians at heart.”
Akpabio-led NASS are political bandits, have no interest of Nigerians – Adeyanju
