Below were two different statements of Barrister Ozekhome SAN under two different circumstances citing same sections of the Constitution.

2014 :
The law firm of Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) argued that the law required the Senate and the House of Representatives to first obtain the President's consent before they could validly summon its client (that being Diezani Allison Madueke, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Allison-Madueke who had been summoned over by the House over alleged expenses of 10 billion Naira on chartering private jets).

It cited Sections 88 and 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended and Section 8 of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act Cap. L12 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2010, to back its claims.

2017 :
Mike Ozekhome argues that “the Committee of the House or the House, can summon any person. It says any person, and it didn’t say some people...It didn’t say whether those elected or not elected. Any person; to bring papers, memos, come with evidence, and that if such a person is summoned to come and testify or to come and answer questions and he refuses to come, under Section 5, the Branch of the National Assembly can order the Police to arrest and bring such a person.”

The same Sections 88 and 89 of the Constitution comes handy to argue for and against.

The same Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act comes to the rescue in both cases.

May God help us.
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Who do you blame...

I have always told ppl that Our problem has always been a weak constitution and institutions.


Our constitution was drafted with an escape route