{"id":422308,"date":"2011-05-11T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/11\/jonathan-needs-friendly-n-assembly-leadership-%e2%80%93-elumelu\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T19:33:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:33:51","slug":"jonathan-needs-friendly-n-assembly-leadership-elumelu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/jonathan-needs-friendly-n-assembly-leadership-elumelu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan needs friendly N-Assembly leadership \u2013 Elumelu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"72\">\n<p><strong>By SIMON EBEGBULEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BENIN \u2013 FORMER Chairman, House Committee on Power and House of Representatives member-elect for Aniocha\/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta State, Mr Ndudi Elumelu, yesterday, stressed the need to have a leadership of the National Assembly that will be very cooperative with the Presidency to assist President Goodluck Jonathan urgently fix the power problem and achieve accelerated economic growth for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Elumelu, who commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and President Jonathan for the smooth conduct of the just-concluded general elections, said the President must be given all he needed to achieve the laudable projects he outlined during his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Vanguard at Benin Airport, Elumelu, who is being tipped for the position of Majority\u00a0 Leader of the House of Representatives, said\u00a0 \u201cthe President needs a team of understanding National Assembly members who will take the mantle of leadership by way of Principal officers that will ensure that they will not be hostile to his agenda in the next phase of his transformation drive. So, we need principal officers that will not be hostile to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to see where we can partner with the executive and ensure that Nigerians benefit because at the end of the day, all we want to ensure is that the average Nigerian feels the impact of our being in government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I will say that whatever success the President can achieve will be based on the ability of the National Assembly to support his agenda for the next phase. So I hope the crop of people that will lead the National Assembly will be people that will have the mind of the Nigerian people at heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Once that is taken care of, then every other thing will take its shape. On the issue of electricity, what we need do is to support the President in his drive to solve the power problem. Then all we can do is to assist him ensure that\u00a0 all the power stations that are being built are completed on time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/05\/jonathan-needs-friendly-n-assembly-leadership-elumelu\/\" title=\"Jonathan needs friendly N-Assembly leadership \u2013 Elumelu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan needs friendly N-Assembly leadership \u2013 Elumelu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN \u2013 FORMER Chairman, House Committee on Power and House of Representatives member-elect for Aniocha\/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta State, Mr Ndudi Elumelu, yesterday, stressed the need to have a leadership of the National Assembly that will be very cooperative with the Presidency to assist President Goodluck Jonathan urgently fix the power problem and achieve accelerated economic growth for the nation. Elumelu, who commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and President Jonathan for the smooth conduct of the just-concluded general elections, said the President must be given all he needed to achieve the laudable projects he outlined during his campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jonathan needs friendly N-Assembly leadership \u2013 Elumelu - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/jonathan-needs-friendly-n-assembly-leadership-elumelu\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Jonathan needs friendly N-Assembly leadership \u2013 Elumelu - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN \u2013 FORMER Chairman, House Committee on Power and House of Representatives member-elect for Aniocha\/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta State, Mr Ndudi Elumelu, yesterday, stressed the need to have a leadership of the National Assembly that will be very cooperative with the Presidency to assist President Goodluck Jonathan urgently fix the power problem and achieve accelerated economic growth for the nation. 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