Abuja — As President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua lays separately the 2010 budget proposals before the two chambers of the National Assembly today, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has asked Nigerians to blame the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for instigating the crisis between members of the two chambers.

According to the opposition party, the on-going ego-crisis did not come by accident but a deliberate contrivance by the leadership of the PDP in order to hold the country permanently down.

In a statement by its national publicity secretary, Hon. Emma Eneukwu, which was made available to Leadership yesterday, the party insisted that the leadership of the ruling party should be held responsible for the constant disagreements between the Senate and the House of Representatives.

"We make bold to inform our beloved country men and women that what is happening at the National Assembly is not an accident but a deliberate contrivance, an arrangee controversy, by the leadership of the PDP to hold the country down for as long as it wants.

"The budget presentation row between the Senate and House of Representatives has nothing to do with the battle for supremacy by any of the two chambers, as Nigerians are being made to understand.

Rather, it is a clever device by the ruling party to cover up the failure of their government to implement the 2009 Federal budget. It is equally a ploy to further cover up the legendary and consistent inability of President Yar'Adua to discharge the statutory functions of his office to Nigerian masses.

"It is the same ploy that PDP has used effectively, to derail the process leading to the amendment of the 1999 constitution.

The calculation is that a smooth sail in the constitution amendment business would also help in the process of electoral reform which the Justice Mohamed Uwais-led committee had done a good job on", the party stated.

ANPP also recalled that this is not the first time, this year, that this National Assembly that is dominated by the PDP, would fail to discharge its duties and responsibilities to Nigerians, owing to its internal petty squabbles. Nigerians still remember how their clamour for a review of the 1999 constitution, was put in abeyance by the PDP because of the irresponsibility of its members at the National Assembly.