Jabioro:
How would that be the senate business, after all the Senate laid the wasteful foundations

dahaz:
Ekweremadu should go and sit down. when the budget for the second Niger bridge was slashed he refused to protest now he is disturbing our peace on a matter that dosnt concern him

dahaz:
Ekweremadu should go and sit down. when the budget for the second Niger bridge was slashed he refused to protest now he is disturbing our peace on a matter that dosnt concern him

Jabioro:
How would that be the senate business, after all the Senate laid the wasteful foundations

However, Ekwerenmadu as part of his point of order read out section 68 subsection 2 of the 1999 constitution as amended saying that the position of the law on the matter is that the Senate must be satisfied with the process before it could be allowed to sail through or otherwise.

68. (1) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if -

(a) he becomes a member of another legislative house.

(b) any other circumstances arise that, if he were not a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, would cause him to be disqualified for election as a member;

(c) he ceases to be a citizen of Nigeria;

(d) he becomes President, Vice-President, Governor, Deputy Governor or a Minister of the Government of the Federation or a Commissioner of the Government of a State or a Special Adviser.

(e) save as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution, he becomes a member of a commission or other body established by this Constitution or by any other law.

(f) without just cause he is absent from meetings of the House of which he is a member for a period amounting in the aggregate to more than one-third of the total number of days during which the House meets in any one year;

(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected;

Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored; or

(h) the President of the Senate or, as the case may be, the Speaker of the House of Representatives receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of section 69 of this Constitution have been complied with in respect of the recall of that member.

(2) The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall give effect to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, so however that the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives or a member shall first present evidence satisfactory to the House concerned that any of the provisions of that subsection has become applicable in respect of that member .

69. A member of the Senate or of the House Representatives may be recalled as such a member if -

(a) there is presented to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission a petition in that behalf signed by more than one-half of the persons registered to vote in that member's constituency alleging their loss of confidence in that member; and

(b) the petition is thereafter, in a referendum conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission within ninety days of the date of receipt of the petition, approved by a simple majority of the votes of the persons registered to vote in that member's constituency.

PaChukwudi44:


When N12m is lavished on advertorials while workers are owed 15 months salary every sane Nigerian let alone senators should be bothered

PaChukwudi44:


When N12m is lavished on advertorials while workers are owed 15 months salary every sane Nigerian let alone senators should be bothered

MaziOmenuko:



** I have seen the paragraph Ekweremadu was referring; let me paste it here for interpretation: This guy is smart by half. He thinks he is talking to illiterates?

The senate has a say only when a Senate is vacating his seat based on section 68 below and not based on section 69.



Now that is when the senate has a say; but when a sentor is being recalled, the senate doesn't have a say as contained in section 69 (not 68) of the constitution as pasted below:

MaziOmenuko:



** I have seen the paragraph Ekweremadu was referring; let me paste it here for interpretation: This guy is smart by half. He thinks he is talking to illiterates?

The senate has a say only when a Senate is vacating his seat based on section 68 below and not based on section 69.



Now that is when the senate has a say; but when a sentor is being recalled, the senate doesn't have a say as contained in section 69 (not 68) of the constitution as pasted below:

PaChukwudi44:
Exactly what I said unless the Senate is satisfied with the outcome of the recall process, senator Dino melaye is going nowhere

Geeman23:
if it sails through what will be the proof receipt of the concluded result by the senate president .I am seeing something here..clarify

vedaxcool:
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beerfraud and lies are

jieta:
why don't you read the article before you call him a liar.

vedaxcool:
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Face front

jieta:
na back you dey face nai make you no dey fit dey comprehend