Adesye Ogunlewe, former minister of work, has ruled out the method at which the winning party, APC is adopting in choosing the leadership of the National Assembly.

According to reports from DAILY POST, some leaders of the APC party including President Muhammadu Buhari and some state governors, has adopted Senator Ahmed Lawan as the next senate president.

However, Senator Ali Ndume, who is also interested in the seat, has protested the party’s decision, stressing that APC Senators were not consulted.

Speaking, Ogunlewe said such a matter should be discussed by the party caucus, while all Senators of the APC should have been carried along.

He stressed that such a decision should not be for the party’s national chairman or some individuals only.

The ex-Minister, who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and a former Senator representing Lagos East from 1999-2003, further stated that he did not expect the National Assembly to be a rubber stamp of the executives, adding that such was bad for the nation’s democracy.

"The method adopted by Oshiomhole is wrong; such a decision should be a caucus thing where everyone is carried along. It is not for the party chairman or the president to be adopting a candidate alone. They are just playing to the gallery and you will see that it may consume them."

'We don’t expect the Senate or House of Representatives to be a rubber stamp; that will be bad for our democracy"