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The senate has asked President Goodluck
Jonathan to return the original copy of the
2015 constitution amendment bill sent to him
for assent.
President Jonathan had declined to sign the
bill, citing discrepancies in it.
In a letter to the national assembly, read on the
floor of the senate by David Mark, senate
president, on Wednesday, Jonathan had argued
that the national assembly did not have the
required four-fifth quorum to pass the bill.
He also cited, “flagrant violation of the doctrine
of separation of powers,” and “unjustified
whittling down of the executive powers of the
federation vested in the president by virtue of
Section 5(1) of the 1999 constitution” as his
reasons for not signing the bill.
Reacting to the development, Ike Ekweremadu,
deputy senate president, and chairman of the
senate committee on constitution review,
moved a motion on Thursday urging the senate
to direct the president to return the original copy
of the 2015 constitution amendment bill with
the signature page intact.
Ekweremadu’s motion was against the
president’s position that the national assembly
did not have the required quorum to pass the
bill.
“The president said he was returning the bill
with a letter attached to it, but unfortunately the
bill was not returned with the letter,” he said.
“So, I move that the senate president asks the
president to return the original copy of bill.”
Ekweremadu, who chaired the committee that
reviewed the constitution, is insisting that the
required quorum at the national assembly
passes the bill, hence his motion asking the
president to return the original copy of the bill
with the signature page intact.
The senate subsequently agreed to ask the
president to return the original copy of the 2015
constitution amendment bill.
The amendment bill makes provision for
independent candidacy, as well as strips the
president of the power to assent to
amendments to the constitution.


www.thecable.ng/senate-asks-gej-return-original-constitution

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20 years ago there was abiola and fela
7 years ago there was yaradua
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