The National assembly crisis has been something that has brought shame on the lawmakers and as received backlash from different groups, the newest of them is the National Association of Seadogs calling on lawmakers in the National Assembly to stop the show of shame in the legislative chamber.

 
The association disheartened expressed sadness over the recent fracas that occurred in both chambers of NASS as a result of issues over sharing of principal positions.

 
National President of the association, Ifeanyi Onochie, in his reaction to the development over the weekend in Calabar, Cross River State, described the development as a show of shame.

 
Onochie, who relayed the displeasure of the association, wondered if this display of immaturity coming from the National Assembly members was the change that Nigerians voted for.

“How honorable could they now be if in the discharge of their duties of making laws for the betterment of the society, they start exchanging blows instead of ideas,” he said.

 

Onochie explained that elected representatives must have the courage to distance the business of party politics from that of governance calling on lawmakers to concentrate fully on why they were sent to the legislative Houses, amongst which was to provide enabling laws that would guarantee quality leadership, development and nation building.

It urged the legislators to sheath their swords and digest the good counsel of the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, who said, “The people of Nigeria want to hear us talk about poverty, insecurity, unemployment and as long as the House is divided and not united, we cannot achieve that.

 
“We have been down this perilous road before. I plead with us as honorable members and as leaders that all hands must be on deck to enable us achieve the desired unity that will help us move this House forward. That is the responsibility we owe.”

 
The association told the lawmakers to use the opportunity provided by the adjournment of the plenary to resolve all issues and spare Nigerians this sordid spectacle of yet again watching them turn to lawbreakers!