OUT-GOING  Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu  Tambuwal, yesterday, bowed out of the  Green Chamber as he observed during his valedictory session  that the poor  relationship between the executive arm and the legislature diverted the House's attention and severally caused the nation a lot of embarrassment.
In his speech entitled: 'The Power of Unity of Purpose', which he delivered as he stepped down as the Speaker after his victory as the Governor-elect of Sokoto State, Tambuwal  boasted that the Seventh Assembly, over which he presided, was not tainted by allegations of corruption except in a couple of cases,  out of which only one is yet to be given a clean bill.
According to him, the attitude of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the ruling party, in trying to manipulate and stampede the legislature into submission, forced it into a cul-de-sac and occasioned the rancour between the two arms of government.
He said: "I must say that the frosty relationship between the executive and Seventh House was an unnecessary distraction and a source of embarrassment to the nation. It is unwarranted that a ruling party with clear majority boxed itself into that situation. If the executive fails to recognize the independence of the legislature and expects that it is a rubber stamp then frosty relation is bound to follow.

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