Human rights lawyer and activist Deji Adeyanju has launched a scathing attack on the National Assembly led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, describing the lawmakers as unfit for legislative duties.
Adeyanju made the remarks during an interview with AIT while reacting to the newly signed Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2026. On Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu assented to the bill, officially signing it into law.
In his reaction, Adeyanju accused the National Assembly of taking the country backwards, alleging that the amendment returns Nigeria to a period when election results could easily be manipulated.
According to Adeyanju: “They have taken us back to 2003 where people can just wake up and write results. What are you expecting of Akpabio?
“Somebody called me last year that I should join them to do electoral reform advocacy, although they are partisan people.
“I said me, you don’t even rate me, for me to do electoral reform advocacy for Akpabio, any electoral act Akpabio superintend over you expect him to be progressive? Of course what are you expecting?
“This is a doomed National Assembly, National Assembly that is irredeemable, they are worse than bandits in the forest, these are political armed robbers. I wasn’t expecting anything different.
“Nigerians have gone to the dogs. if not, how can you do this kind of rape against democracy? what do we need a National Assembly for if this is what they are buying cars yearly for, this is what they are stealing billions for, is it not better to invest the money in the judiciary, this is a waste?
“These people should be farming sugarcane in Ogbomosho, they are not fit to be legislatures, they are enemies of the country.
“My simple solution is that politics should be a hobby not a profession, we need to stop paying politicians because the Akpabios of this world the reason they are badly behave is because we are paying them.
“Let professionals like lawyers, medical doctors, engineers, and surgeons should leave their office and go to the National Assembly to do one week and serve the country voluntarily.”
Adeyanju further described the Akpabio-led National Assembly as an enemy of Nigerians, insisting that the amendment undermines democratic values and electoral integrity.
