Electoral Amendment: NASS dismisses report on collection of signatures to veto Buhari

The National Assembly has dismissed media reports that members of the two chambers of the assembly had commenced collection of signatures to counter President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent the electoral amendment bill.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, made this known when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The Speaker, who met the president alongside the Senate President, said he was not aware of any move by the legislators to override the president, saying a collection of signatures was not an easy task as being speculated.

He said: “I’m not aware of any such as at least not in my chambers. We’re on a break right now, a collection of signatures is not something that is done when we’re on break, when everybody’s scattered.!

“What I said very clearly, I made it abundantly clear at our last sitting, that we will look at the President’s veto and his reasons. And when we come back, it’s not something we’re going to do on a knee jerk.

“When we come back from our recess, there’s still ample time, we will decide one way or the other. Which way to go, the options are there.

“We will do what is right for the Nigerian people. And I made it very clear that we’re not going to throw away the baby with the bathwater.

“Nigerians want it and Nigerians will get it. We may have tarried a little while.

“But by the time we come back, right, at least as far as the house, and I’m sure the Senate as well, will be the first thing on our agenda. The very week we come back from recess.’’

The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, who also addressed the correspondents, revealed that the recently passed 2022 appropriation bill of 17.13trillion would be transmitted to the president by next week for signing.

He said: “We’re very optimistic. In fact, we’re very sure that Mr President will sign the bill into an act of the National Assembly next week by the grace of God. And this is the way we should always work together.

“This is our third appropriation bill to be passed before we go on Christmas break.

“It has shown how important the passage and the assent to the budget before the end of the year has been.’’

NAN

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Lalasticlala

They can never do it

Okay

This rubber stamp spineless senate cannot do anything of such and we all know it so there is no point dismissing the report

Who cares

Only minority PDP , party of morons followed by idiots. PDP hired thugs attacking PDP Miscreants

Rubber stamped legislature, very predictable set of people. They dare not go against their daddy. All the initial noise is just gragra. Anything buhari asked them they must do. Worst legislative arm since 1999. The approve loan with reckless abandon, no oversight function, they got disrespected by every appointee of the executive and to top it all, their leaders are buhari scrotum licker. Spits

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garfield1

Lawan is a rubber stamp

Say it!

Lawan has not told us the importance of passing the budget before going on break while leaving the electoral bill in limbo. Worst senate President ever!!

I know

One Denial Too Many...
No sense..!!

We play politics with everything in Nigeria

This rubberstamp legislative is the worst in the history of Nigeria's democracy.

Rubber.

If I was rubber, you say stamp



Robber

blamingthedevil:
Only minority PDP , party of morons followed by idiots. PDP hired thugs attacking PDP Miscreants

Can you confidently beat your chest and say you weren’t one of those who expected buhari to assent to that bill but ended up disappointed deep down when he failed to do so?

Trust this NASS at your own peril

Plantiff:
The authority to override the veto power of the Nigerian President to deny his assent to turn bills into binding legislations is constitutionally vested in the National Assembly of this country.

The fact that influential federal legislators deny an attempt to utilize their constitutional legislative power to which was inserted in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to check and balance executive powers is a shame and another reason to justify the assertion that democracy in its modern form may not be an African thing at the moment.

What a load of bull crap! Person get cry because them take say make him no believe fake news!

They're not this slow when it comes to approving loans.

ijustdey:

Electoral Amendment: NASS dismisses report on collection of signatures to veto Buhari





https://dailynigerian.com/electoral-amendment-nass/

Lalasticlala

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THIS NASS IS AN APRON OF THE EXECUTIVE!

Hahahahahaha NASS!
I say any closed door meeting or section has already compromised the process. Denials has started arising

ok o


Anyway, Agriculture is life.

If we cannot separate the functions of the legislature from the executive, we can as well merge the two to reduce the cost of governance in the country.

Bloody Samaritans

Was it not on camera that one of them confirmed it?

Set of unserous elements.

We at the national assembly are with our SP on this issue... we stand with our indefatigable president buhari



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