{"id":67917,"date":"2025-06-12T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67917"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:58:12","slug":"ignore-critics-focus-on-national-duty-akpabio-tells-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/12\/ignore-critics-focus-on-national-duty-akpabio-tells-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore Critics, Focus on National Duty, Akpabio Tells Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Onyeanya Ebere<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has urged members of the National Assembly to disregard critics who label the legislature as a rubber stamp of the executive.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio made the call on Thursday during a joint session at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to welcome President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, marking the commemoration of Democracy Day.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, the Senate President praised President Tinubu\u2019s administration for what he described as notable achievements within the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>He also defended the integrity and purpose of the federal lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should ignore the critics who tag us rubber stamp. They don\u2019t know why we are here,\u201d Akpabio said, affirming the legislature\u2019s commitment to national development and democratic consolidation.<\/p>\n<p>He further appealed to the President to consider establishing a June 12 Museum to document and preserve the legacies of Nigeria\u2019s pro-democracy heroes, many of whom paid the ultimate price in the struggle for democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p>The joint session was part of the events marking Democracy Day, commemorating the historic June 12, 1993, presidential election widely regarded as Nigeria\u2019s freest and fairest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Onyeanya Ebere Senate President Godswill Akpabio has urged members of the National Assembly to disregard critics who label the legislature as a rubber stamp of the executive. Akpabio made the call on Thursday during a joint session at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to welcome President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, marking the commemoration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67919,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67917\/revisions\/67919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}