Key questions this article answers:
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What is the historical relationship between the legislature and executive in the 4th Republic?
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The relationship between the Legislature and the Executive arms of government has a significant impact on lawmaking. Considering President Tinubu’s plans, what can we expect from the 10th Assembly?
Nigerian lawmakers have a long history of snatching maces. One of the earlier examples of this was in June 2000, when trying to prevent his impeachment, then-Senate President Chuba Okadigbo sent the Senate on recess for six weeks and took home the mace.
Police officers surrounded his home before 6 am on Friday, June 2nd, 2000, acting on orders to retrieve the stolen mace. Okadigbo told them they would only do so over his dead body. The Senate reconvened in July. He was impeached in August. He passed on in September 2003.
The relationship between the executive and legislative branches is governed
