A former member of the National Assembly, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, on Tuesday faulted the call in some quarters for part-time legislature in the country.
Solomon said part-time parliament would be at variance with the democratic structure currently in place in the country.
Solomon stated this while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of the annual Public Lecture and Book Presentation organised by Lagos State Ministry of Information Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Lagos.
Solomon said: “You cannot talk about part-time legislation just because we realize some people are doing things that are not right.
“We used to have the parliamentary system of government; we now changed to presidential system of government.
“Those countries practicing presidential system of government, do they have part-time legislation?
“We need to look internally, not only at the legislature; discovery of massive looted funds does not call for part-time legislation.”
Solomon, who represented Lagos West Senatorial District in the Senate between 2007 and 2015, said the state government had touched all aspects of development in effort to enhance the living standard in the state.
The Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, who was the Guest Speaker at the event, said transparent governance, access to information and policy collaboration, among others, was frontiers for inclusive governance.
Fagbohun commended the initiatives of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the areas of stakeholder engagement, quarterly town hall meetings and the establishment of Office of Civic Engagement and Disability Affairs.
Also, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in the state, Steve Ayorinde, commended the NUJ chapel for the “intellectually-motivated” initiative that brought to the fore the achievements of the state government.