The speaker house of representatives has criticised President Goodluck Jonathan over his refusal to implement resolutions of the National Assembly. Speaking during the 2013 budget presentation yesterday at a joint session of the National Assembly, Tambuwal said the legislature would like the President to succeed and that they do not have any other motive apart from that. “Mr. President, let me restate our assurances that the National Assembly wants you to succeed and I say that for every legislator here today. The stakes are certainly high and as representatives of the people we know exactly how bad things are. I am compelled however to state that the National Assembly is becoming increasingly concerned about the disregard for its resolutions and public comments by certain functionaries of the Executive on same. I cite the Senate Resolution on the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the House Resolution on the state of insecurity of the nation, requesting Mr. President to visit and brief the House, the House of Representatives Resolution on the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the concurrent Resolution of the two Chambers on Bakassi, among others. “This does not promote cordial relationship between the Executive and Legislature and consequently stability in the polity,” Tambuwal lamented. On 28th May, Jonathan and Tambuwal disagreed publicly during the democracy day anniversary lecture at the Presidential Villa, Abuja over Jonathan’s failure to assent to bills passed by the The Speaker, who intermittently received standing ovation from his colleagues in the green chamber yesterday, informed the President that as representatives of the Nigerian people, the National Assembly “have closer interaction with nooks and crannies of the nation we are privileged to feel the people’s pulse more intensely and we are duty bound to communicate same to you”. He said interim reports on field oversight of the 2012 budget by the House standing committees “are clearly unimpressive both in terms of releases as well as utilisation” in breach of section 8 of the budget bill. Tambuwal also called on the President to constitute the Public Procurement Council as provided for under the Public Procurement Act 2007 saying, “The sanctity of extant legislation and respect for the rule of law are the hallmarks of true democracy.” The Speaker further queried the non-inclusion of revenues from gas which runs into billions of dollars and the external borrowing plan in the budget estimates and the Medium Term Expenditure Frame Work.