By Henry Umoru
ABUJA—DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Sunday, took a swipe at Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, warning him to know the limits.
Senator Ekweremadu, who noted that senators were neither rubber-stamp nor illiterates as alleged by the Presidential aide, said if Gulak's understanding of the role of the legislature in a democracy was to rubber-stamp everything brought by the executive, he should wake up to the realities of how things were done.
He said if Gulak, as Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, rubber-stamped everything the executive sent to the House, the National Assembly would not act in like manner.
Ekweremadu, in a statement, yesterday, by Okey Ozoani, his Special Adviser on Political Matters, said: "To put matters straight, the Deputy President of the Senate, while speaking on The Political Ideology of the Great Zik of Africa and Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria, at the 2nd Zik Annual Lecture Series organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Awka, stressed that the 21st century Nigeria needed knowledgeable leadership at all levels."
