The Senate that cannot say nay

By Moshood Oshunfurewa
The 10th Senate under President Godswill Akpabio presents a compelling case study of democratic corrosion masked as efficiency. In just two years, this chamber has introduced 844 bills, a figure trumpeted as unprecedented, yet these raw numbers obscure a deeper institutional crisis. The Senate has become the executive’s most reliable political vassal, a body where opposition is not so much defeated as it is rendered irrelevant.According to some lawmakers and po