Senate President Godswill Akpabio says the national assembly would continue to work with President Bola Tinubu in the nation’s interest.
He insisted that parliament’s constitutional duty is to serve Nigerians rather than manufacture conflict with the executive.
Akpabio spoke on Tuesday while declaring open the 2026 National Assembly Open Week in Abuja.
He said parliament was established to serve Nigerians and should remain accessible to citizens rather than operate as a closed institution.
“These walls were never meant to keep Nigerians out. They were built to welcome them in — not merely as spectators of democracy, but as its rightful owners,” Akpabio said.
The senate president restated that parliament belongs to the people whose votes created it and not to lawmakers.
“Parliament belongs not to those elected to sit within it, but to the millions whose hopes and votes brought it into existence,” he
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