Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a former Deputy Governor of Abia State, is the leader of the South East Senate Caucus and also the Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy.
In this interview he speaks on the relationship between the different arms of government among other topical issues in the polity. Excerpts:
By Henry Umoru
What is your assessment of the present Senate?
This Senate came into being under inauspicious circumstances where the government waged war against the Senate on the basis that the principal officers that they wanted did not emerge and from day one the Senate had actually worked under a very restrictive circumstance with regard to its relationship with the executive.
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But the government saw the number three citizen of Nigeria as an enemy who must be brought down at all costs, and that led to a very contentious relationship.
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