Against the backdrop of growing insecurity across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari is to honour invitations by the House of Representatives to address the House on issues affecting security situations in the country
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila disclosed this while fielding questions from State House Correspondents, after meeting with the President on Wednesday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
The House had following the mass murder of 110 rice farmers, last weekend, passed a resolution to invite the President to brief the House over the state of the nation’s security.
“We have agreed on a date and he will meet with the House to address the situation. We have fixed a date but we will communicate with you.
The Speaker who said he was at the Presidential Villa to see the President on the developments in the country, said the President “was so willing to listen as typical of the President, the usual democrat that he is”
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“What we basically sought was to convey the resolution of the House and to fix a date which we did not fix out of respect for Mr President and his very tight schedule, what date will be convenient for him”
The Speaker described Buhari as ” a perfect democrat”, assured that “he will come to the House to address members in the nearest future.”
Speaking on how the President feels about the current security situations, Gbajabiamila said the President is “more concerned than me and you. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
“We will leave everything until when he comes to the House. Let me not pre-empt him. All I can tell you for now is that he is fully committed to the security of lives and property of Nigerians.
“He is coming to talk to Nigerians through the House. You know that the House, as is constituted, every Nigerian is present in the House. Every constituency in this country is represented in the House.
“So when Mr President is talking to the House, he is talking to Nigerians through their representatives”
he said
