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deletrue:
Stup.id dust. To work for NTA don become pride abi?

And your own achievements so far would be....? Ish

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TristanReveur:
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The reasons for this fuel scarcity include...Tinubu has mouth odour, Rotimi Amaechi used to wear one shirt before, I used to Bleep the Igbo pride Bianca...she was a moaner. Thank you.

I just had to gawp when I saw that piece of 'information' from ffk. I was telling someone today and she was just bewildered. And to think, the fool collects a salary for his junk. Smdh

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Pdp really knows how to run a good campaign... for the opposition! Ffk over to you for explanation or abuse. Another thing our capable leader didn't see coming, fuel scarcity in the middle of an election. Well done.

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Some days it feels like interacting with pdp tandroids actually lowers my iq. If they were all put in a zoo, people would pay good money to come and see their foolishness!

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For the children here

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abike_Dabiri
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, born in Jos, Plateau State [1] is a Nigerian politician and member of the Nigeria Federal House of Representatives representing Ikorodu Constituency in Lagos State. She was the Chairman of the House Committee on Media & Publicity. She is currently the chairman of House Committee on Diaspora Affairs.[2]

She spent 15 years of distinguished and meritorious service at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). While in NTA she gained a strong understanding of the industry because of her dedication, inquisitiveness and professionalism. She anchored the weekly NTA Newsline programme to the delight of millions of Nigerians irrespective of their tribe or religion.

The tape has Omisore and Fayose indicating that an inec official was complicit in their scheme as he provided inec materials for copying. This matter needs serious investigation to expose all the actors in this fraudulent scheme.

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VolvoS60:
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Noted. I will also double up to confirm the news in the link. But my interest in the matter (as I said in my earlier posts) arose because of the opposition of the LASG and OYSG governments to the FOI being implemented at the state level. One would expect these states to be strongly in favour of pro-people legislation (passed by their party at the federal level) being replicated at the state level. Unfortunately that is not the case.

I get your point, but the biggest Nigerian problem has always been ignorance and complacency. For all the noise we see here on nairaland about FOI, I can bet barely 10% have actually read the law, and less than 1% will ever contemplate using it. Already I have seen people confused about the purpose of the law here. If the public remains ignorant and docile the FOI fails ab initio.

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VolvoS60:
^^^

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/11/lagos-federal-high-court-ruling-foi-act/

OK, but I'm going to treat that with some scepticism. Ekiti state remains the only state whose actual law is listed online. Lagos State assembly does not have it listed among passed bills and the delta state website is useless but press reports show the bill had a reading in the house, but no information that it was ever passed. No evidence for kwara state either.

http://ekitistate.gov.ng/2012/04/ekiti-state-freedom-of-information-law/

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http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/30360-expert-blames-naira-devaluation-for-high-diesel-price/30360-expert-blames-naira-devaluation-for-high-diesel-price

Expert blames naira devaluation for high diesel price

25.Feb.2015 0 Comments Tunde Dodondawa-Lagos


Despite the decline in crude price at the international market, the price of Automated Gas Oil (AGO), otherwise called diesel, has continued to be steady at between N140 and N150 per litre.

However, a stakeholder and an expert in the oil and gas industry blamed the high cost of diesel on recent devaluation of the naira by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday in Lagos, the Executive Secretary, Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), Femi Olawore, stated that “as price of crude oil drops at the international market, our exchange rates moved upward and swallowed all the advantages we would have derived from the decline in crude price.”

He said exchange rate plays an important role in the calculations of pump price of diesel.

“At N171.36 to a dollar, the landing cost of diesel was N89.77 per litre. When it rose to N188 to a dollar, landing cost moved to N96.86 per litre. At N199 to a dollar, the landing cost of diesel rose to N101 per litre.

“Please note that all these costs exclude other related costs like the distribution margins, transportation cost and so on.”

“And the exchange rates quoted above were the CBN official interbank rates. The higher the exchange rate, the higher the cost of imported products,” he stated.

It will be recalled that the CBN had devalued the naira in November 2014 and further devalued it in February 2015 by the cancellation of the retail Dutch Auction System (rDAS) and the wholesale Dutch Auction System (wDAS).

Following these decisions, the naira has depreciated significantly and it was exchanged for as high as N220 to a dollar on Tuesday at parallel markets.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/177671-naira-devaluation-brings-back-fuel-queues-at-filling-stations-nationwide.html

Naira devaluation brings back fuel queues at filling stations nationwide
February 28, 2015Bassey Udo


Despite the intervention of the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to avert fuel supply crisis in the run up to the forth-coming elections, long queues of anxious motorists resurfaced on Friday in filling stations in major cities across the country.

The minister, along with officials of the Debt Management Office, had met with members of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria on Monday to reassure them of government’s support towards sustained supply of petroleum products in the country.

The meeting followed marketers’ claim that the recent devaluation of the Naira by the Central Bank of Nigeria had imposed extra burden on their capacity to finance further fuel importation.

The continued pressures from falling crude oil prices at the international market since July last year had forced the devaluation of the Naira in November 2014 from N155 to N168 to the dollar,

On February 19, 2015, the Naira was further devalued to N199 following CBN’s closure of the official foreign exchange auction windows and redirecting of all demands for FOREX to the interbank market through the Deposit Money Banks.

The devaluation of the Naira resulted in a $31 price differential added to the total cost of importation of the product and subsidy by government.

Executive Secretary of the marketers’ association, Thomas Olawore, said on Friday that the differential between $155 and $168 as well as between $168 and $199, which accumulated to about N100 billion, was a burden they could not bear as businesses.

He said the figure also included the interest payable by markers to various banks on loans used to fund imports, which they failed to pay within the 45 days grace period approved for them.

To encourage them to resume fuel importation, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala had during the meeting with the marketers agreed to remove all bottlenecks in fuel imports, including the settlement of N100 billion before the end of March to banks to avert fuel supply crisis.

Although the marketers have since agreed to resume importation, long fuel queues were seen outside filling stations in Abuja and other major cities across the country since Thursday, as anxious fuel consumers anticipated shortage of products supply.

Mr. Olawore explained that the fuel queues were a result of over a month lag in the fuel importation by marketers.

“It takes between 14 and 21 days to bring in products to the country,” he explained. “If it is only on Monday that the minister met with marketers, there is no way products would be imported within these few days.”

He explained that once fuel supply was stopped, the problem of scarcity would not manifest immediately, adding that the long queues currently manifesting in Abuja and other major cities were because marketers had no money to import over the past one month.

On its part, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency said it has also taken steps to allay the fears of marketers by reflecting the new CBN foreign exchange rate of $199 to the dollar on its products pricing template published on its website.

Besides, the Executive Secretary, Farouk Ahmed, said the pricing regulatory agency had already prepared some outstanding claims on the foreign exchange differential and interest charges for the marketers, which would be forwarded to the DMO for review and approval before being forwarded to the Ministry of Finance for payment.

Again, he said the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison.Madueke, has been very supportive of the effort to ensure uninterrupted fuel supply.

Apart from the approval for the third quarter import allocation to marketers released since December 2014, Mr. Ahmed said the minister has also given approval for the agency to commence work on a supplementary import allocation to marketers in line with petroleum support fund guidelines.

Meanwhile, the NNPC has advised fuel consumers against panic buying and hoarding, as it has injected additional 688 million litres of petrol into the market.

The corporation’s spokesperson, Ohi Alegbe, said the NNPC was working with all downstream industry stakeholders to eliminate the noticeable artificial fuel queues in some fuel stations across the country.

Mr. Alegbe said the corporation had substantially increased the volume of petroleum products distributed to marketers, within the last 48 hours, to arrest any short fall capable of triggering fears of an imminent scarcity of products.


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Pdp as always, too little too late with the damage control. We are still watching to see if Obanikoro gets confirmed as minister abi.

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Imoy:
I bought Fuel today at about 7pm @Jemok fueling station Asaba for #87naira/ltre. ,

So give the name and location of the station u bought, it might help.

U are complaining about the government incessant increase of fuel price (which is not true, but due to some selfish marketers), and u don't want to help in fighting the menace, hw are they supposed to knw were u bought it from?
U neva can tell, there might be. Sme1 reading that could trace and lock up the fueling station u bought at that exorbitant price.


Less I forget

GEJ till 2019.....

If u are not comfortable with this, Cameron is not far.

That is rubbish about selfish marketers. How much are they buying the dollar at now? Can't you reason a little? The CBN has devalued the naira so all imports will be more expensive in naira terms.

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With the devaluation of the naira, this is unavoidable. Please direct enquiries, complaints to the government. It is truly a transformation agenda in operation.

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thegoodjoehunt3:
When I saw the figures, I immediately thought it was per annum.

From reports I read, if GMB collects only N2.3 million instead of the total, then he loves this country too much.

I seriously doubt it is per annum. That would be less than the pension for governors. Or the Senate president, or his deputy etc etc. The Cost of his security would probably easily swallow that up.

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VolvoS60:
^^^
Delta, Lagos and Ekiti.

Your source for this info appreciated. I know lagos had sent a bill to the house but I did not hear it was passed. On delta state, seeing is believing.

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thegoodjoehunt3:
Are you sure? N30 million a month? Please if you have a source for it let me know.

Either way, I heard he does not collect full. Maybe he collects N2.3 million a month.

This purportedly comes from a FB page so I treat with caution...

The Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja has released Pension entitlements for former Heads of States as below.
1} Basic Pay::::::::::::N11.630 million
2. Medical Benefits: N13.230 million (Family covered)
Total Pension:::::::::: N24.86 million (very strange that they do not mention if it is per month or per annum?)

The last budget figure I could find was at 2bn p.a. And considering that at the time only Gowon, Shagari, IBB and Obasanjo (Abacha's widow?) should have been entitled, you can do the math. I believe they are also entitled to a change of vehicles every x number of years... As far as I know GMB has not commented on this issue, and neither will Jonathan since he will soon be a beneficiary.

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koife:
Read again I said conspiracy theory.....it a makeup

Ooook o

APContherun:
Rubbish.
Can you prove he only collects a fraction of his monthly pension?
Where is the record that he actually does?

http://www.naij.com/312486-buhari-gets-just-10-of-his-past-presidents-salary-melaye.html

Buhari Gets Just 10% Of His Past Presidents’ Salary – Melaye

Clement Ejiofor, 4 months ago
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Honorable Member of the Federal house of Representative Dino Melaye wrote on his Facebook page to defend a retired Major General in the Nigerian Army and a former military ruler of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari Gets Just 10% Of His Past Presidents’ Salary – Melaye

Member of the Federal house of Representative decided to investigate why Muhammadu Buhari couldn’t afford APC nomination form because he read online the question a lady asked.

READ ALSO: APC Set To Adopt Buhari As Consensus Candidate

He went to the ministry of Finance where he disclosed that all former Presidents and Head of states actually get 23million naira monthly.

According to Melaye, Buhari wrote a letter to the Minister of Finance to pay him 10% of N23m former Presidents and Head of States do take as salary. So Buhari monthly payment is N2.3m instead of N23m.

Here is his message:

“I read online the question a lady asked. The question is how can Buhari who earns over 300million naira yearly claim that he can not afford to pay 27million naira for the APC presidential form. I became interested and decided to investigate. I went to the ministry of Finance where I discovered that it is true that all former Presidents and Head of states actually get 23million naira monthly. But I found out that General Buhari actually wrote the minister of Finance to reject the 23million monthly pay. He said in his letter that he will only accept 10percent or that amount which is 2.3million and that is what he has been taking. This is just to clear the air.”

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thegoodjoehunt3:

I heard out of the N23 million a year for the heads of state pension, Maj. Gen. Buhari collects N2.3 million which he thinks is enough for him. That is why he does not elusive the luxury of having so much money.

You are mistaken. I believe the presidential pension is at approx 30mill a month. That is what IBB, gowon, obasanjo, are collecting while the most honest of the lot Buhari claims only a part of that figure.

Martins301:
If your claim is true why hasn't he been indicted yet? Are you saying Obj, Yar Adua and GEJ have been too clueless to investigate and indict him? Open your eyes man.

Most of you have turned the word almajiri into a derogatory term yet you keep chanting that GEJ built so so and so number of almajiri schools. Brother it is not too late to amend your ways.

GEJ is definitely too clueless but we all know how vindictive Obasanjo can be, and the fact is he found nothing to pin on Buhari. Rather it was the consultants he got to wind up PTF that ended up being chased for fraud. Such is life.

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themilanway:
;Dna aro you dey wish the guy? ;DYou wicked

I can't wish it on anyone, but when people start talking strangely, intervention is needed. If the thing pass prayer, strong prescription dey. It is well...

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Like joke like joke... Next thing aro...
Hia

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Look at the pdp people trying to pretend they don't know the government does not want inec to use the scanners for the election. #fail

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BobNeli:
. Thanks for your highlights. But my brother, can we actually realise that we are in 2015. And that the mistakes of 2011 should not be allowed to scuttle our dreams for 2015 and henceforth. Do you realize that the Buhari of 2011 is likely not going to be same as the Buhari of 2015? Asuming withing this lapse of 4yrs, our dear general became incapacitated, as we all know, age is no longer on his side. Maybe by way of mental degradation and its likes, wount it be futile on our part to entrust our mandate for a better future in an unconfirmed entity? The debate was quite one of the best ways to acertain his understanding of the responsibilities he would be shouldering for me and you. He denied us that opportunity, and here we are keeping blind eyes just in other not to contradict ourselves on things we have already wished to accept as truths. Negligence of duty can never take away it's consequencies. Let's always realise what we are doing to avoid crying over a spilt milk.

This inelegant rubbish you type is unworthy. Buhari has campaigned in 35 States so far and has spoken at many fora and given innumerable interviews on tv and in print. He has shown himself more than capable and more intellectually together than the incumbent. As for a debate I really do not care for him to be involved unless it it organised by a totally government - free organisation and that will not happen. After ait and nta etc have accepted to air poisonous propaganda for profit we are wary. Channels remains the only station that strives for fair play but even then Buhari is already coasting whereas Jonathan is floundering, so why do Jonathan any favours? Even if Jonathan presents Shekau's head on a stick he will still lose the election because his actions over the last six years have convicted him of gross incompetence and failure of leadership.

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Lol. As comment above says, pdp tandroids have a depressingly negative and repetitive chant that does nothing even to inspire their own ranks. Buhari has steered clear of any personal attacks even as he has been critical of the government, and that resonates with the public who cannot feel this spectral transformation agenda that TAN has already bored the people with well in advance of the election campaign proper. The APC campaign has been smart and focused and Buhari has been full of empathy and conviction and he speaks directly to the audience. As the APC advert says, if the government has to advertise what it has been doing over the last 6 years, obviously people are not feeling it.

As I type, PHCN has been absent all night and yet GEJ is still looking for ipp's to commission! Schools are still failure factories, corruption blossoms under his nose and suddenly boko haram appears vulnerable. Hmn! Naira collapsing, aviation fuel is becoming scarce, and kidnapping is a new national sport. Even to manage his own party Jonathan has failed, to pass the pib law when pdp has majority in both houses, has used police and army to terrorise governments from Rivers to ekiti to Osun, has re nominated his rigging contractor Obanikoro as minister again while declining to investigate the ekiti rigging tape with the most spurious of reasons. I dare to say that Jonathan has dug his own grave politically and we are now obliged to bury him in it.

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VolvoS60:
^^^^
The bolded part of your post got my attention.

Perhaps you should have used the word 'lot' instead of the word 'little'. I marvel at how GEJ could whip the party faithful into line when it came to endorsing his candidacy and ensuring he ran unopposed at last year's party primaries. Yet GEJ cannot muster support for a life changing bill like the PIB despite a party majority in both Houses. Private interests trumping national interests?


Perhaps you can educate me on any far reaching executive sponsored bill that has been passed into law in the past 4 to 6 years? And please do not mention the FOI bill. Although I give GEJ some credit for signing that bill (compare his speedy assent to the pig headed obstinacy of OBJ - a man who clearly wanted total freedom to run his corrupt and fraudulent government without any external scrutiny ), it should not be forgotten that the FOI bill was sponsored by an opposition lawmaker. (I must digress at this point and state my complete revulsion and disgust at APC governors who have refused to sponsor or assent to FOI bills at the state level. Is this not the meaning of hypocrisy and confusion? ).

As things stand, I am not aware of any 'signature' legislation (as Mr. Soludo would put it) that the GEJ administration can boast of. Without any groundbreaking legislation passed then what platform will the so-called 'institution building' (which we have heard so much about) rest on?

If GEJ isn't re-elected next month then what exactly will we say his legacy is?

With regards to your comments on the FOI law, I would appreciate it if you could let us know which states in the federation including the fct have domesticated the law. As far as I have researched, it appears only Ekiti state under Fayemi has done so. I stand to be corrected.

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barcanista:
Idealy, the resolution by the Confab should have gone through a referandum and not further subject to a parliamentary process. Because the confab is the "voice" of the People, its resolutions naturally should supercede parliamentary brohaha. But again the President should have got the endorsement of the Parliament in form of a bill to make the Confab binding and to undergo referandum so as to be endorsed by at least 2/3 Nigeria population of voting age.

Well, the NASS, and virtually every section of our political class were part of the Confab Process. Jonathan sending the report to NASS is like doing what he should have done in the first instance. But the good news is that the NASS will look at the report and passing it ideally should be a mere academic exercise.
The Confab is like "our" resolution

I'm sorry but this is rubbish. The legislature cannot make laws in violation of the constitution, and thus they cannot transfer the power to amend the constitution to another body, in contradiction to the means of altering the constitution specified in the constitution! So the confab for all the money spent was just a useless talking shop that has no authority and little foundation. It certainly was not representing me, especially with a significant number of government appointees. I had no choice in who represented me, and on that ground it fails for me.

The nation has an Attorney - General who should ideally provide clear legal advice on what is legal for the government to do, and obviously he has been derelict in his duties.

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From the Nigerian constitution

56. (1) Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution any question proposed for decision in the Senate or the House of Representatives shall be determined by the required majority or the members present and voting; and the person presiding shall cast a vote whenever necessary to avoid an equality of votes but shall not vote in any other case.

(2) Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution, the required majority for the purpose of determining any question shall be a simple majority.
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9. (1) The National Assembly may, subject to the provision of this section, alter any of the provisions of this Constitution.

(2) An Act of the National Assembly for the altertion of this Constitution, not being an Act to which section 8 of this Constitution applies, shall not be passed in either House of the National Assembly unless the proposal is supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of all the members of that House and approved by resolution of the Houses of Assembly of not less than two-thirds of all the States.

(3) An Act of the National Assembly for the purpose of altering the provisions of this section, section 8 or Chapter IV of this Constitution shall not be passed by either House of the National Assembly unless the proposal is approved by the votes of not less than four-fifths majority of all the members of each House, and also approved by resolution of the House of Assembly of not less than two-third of all States.

(4) For the purposes of section 8 of this Constitution and of subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the number of members of each House of the National Assembly shall, notwithstanding any vacancy, be deemed to be the number of members specified in sections 48 and 49 of this Constitution.

10. The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.

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I am just amazed at the obtuse nature of some of these arguments. In a parliamentary democracy like the U.K. if the prime minister fails to muster the majority votes to pass major legislation that he campaigned on, he will face a vote of confidence in which it will be decided if he still commands a majority in parliament that supports his leadership. So we have a presidential democracy, but it is still extremely stupid, for a leader and president to proclaim he will push a bill that does not have the support of his party in the national legislature,especially when his party commands a majority in both houses. Silly excuses, I've heard enough of already.

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barcanista:
Which constitution are you reading?

I trust this will better inform you about the constitution. The parts in bold in particular, the rest of the article provides useful context.

http://www.elombah.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu/14609-the-veto-power-of-the-president-under-the-1999-constitution

The Veto Power Of The President Under The 1999 Constitution

Category: ARTICLES
Published on Monday, 18 February 2013 16:27
Written by Okoi Obono-Obla

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goodluck JonathanThe 2013 Appropriation Bill was passed into Law by the National Assembly several weeks ago and presented to President Goodluck Jonathan for assent. It was expected that President Jonathan would promptly assent the Bill into Law so that the executive branch of the Federal Government will start the implementation of the budget for

the year in good time especially where previous Appropriations Act (Budgets) over the years have been dogged by poor implementation.
Section 81 (1) of the Constitution, 1999 vests on the President the responsibility to cause to be prepared and laid before each House of the National Assembly at any time in each financial year estimates of the revenues and expenditure of the Federation for the next following financial year.
Where a Bill has been passed into Law in the House in which it originated, it shall be sent to the other House, and it shall be presented to the President for assent when it has been passed by that other House and agreement has been reached between the two Houses on any amendment made on it. See Section 58 (3) of the Constitution. It is instructive that the National Assembly is made up of two Houses namely the Senate and the House of Representatives.
However this expectation of expeditious assenting and implementation of the Appropriations Act has come into naught. President Jonathan has bluntly refused to assent the Bill into Law by appending his signature as enjoined by Section 58 (4) of the Constitution which provides that where a bill is presented to the President for assent, he shall within thirty days thereof signify that he assents or that he withholds assent.
It is more than 30 days since the 2013 Appropriations Bill has been presented to President Jonathan but he has refused to assent into Law or Act. There is a deadlock. The fate of the 2013 budget hangs in the balance. There is a threat by the National Assembly the power conferred on it by Section 58 (5) of the Constitution to pass into Law any Bill that the President refuse or fail to assent into. In other words, the National Assembly is threatening to veto the Bill. Section 58 (5) of the Constitution provides that where the President withholds his assent and the bill is again passed by each House by two-thirds majority, the bill shall become law and the assent of the President shall not be required.
The Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Dr. Nwanze Okeidegbe has revealed that there is a disagreement between the executive branch of government and the National Assembly on some key issues concerning the budget. The key areas where the executive and the National Assembly appear to disagree are the vexatious issue of constituency projects and the overheads that is higher than what the executive actually laid before the National Assembly. The Chief Economic Adviser revealed that the executive branch of the Federal Government has sought legal advice on the constitutionality of the Veto and its application.
This current impasse is not the first we have seen in recent times between the executive branch of the Federal Government and the National Assembly. The would be recalled the row between the President and the National Assembly over refusal or failure of the President to assent into Law several Bills passed by the National Assembly that has been kept from Nigerians came into the open.
Recall when Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tawbuwal, pointedly accused President Jonathan of shirking his constitutional responsibilities by withholding or refusing his assent to several bills passed by the National Assembly at a Public lecture on the 27th May, 2012 to marked the 13th Anniversary of the return to democratic civil rule in the country.
Responding to the dart thrown at the presidency by Speaker Tambuwal, President Jonathan said he refused to sign or assent to these bills because that the National Assembly, that is made up of majority of members of the Peoples Democratic Party has disregarded or refused to follow the manifestos of the Peoples Democratic Party in enacting the legislations .
The brawls and bickering between the presidency and the National Assembly (especially the House of Representatives) stems from the fall out of the election to elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2011 when the person preferred by the President and the top hierarchy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was roundly defeated by Honourable Tambuwal to the chagrin and consternation of President Jonathan and the PDP.
The PDP had zoned the Speakership of the House of Representatives zoned to the position to the South West Geo-Political Zone but Honourable Tambuwal who is from the North West rather emerged Speaker of the House.
Thereafter the Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Representatives Albert Tsokwa (PDP Taraba) disclosed to bewildered Nigerians that there are more than ten (10) bills passed by the last National Assembly which were not assented to by President Jonathan. The bills include the Public Procurement Amendment Bill; Legal Aid Council Bill; National Health Bill; People with Disability Bill; National Assembly Budget and Research Office Establishment Bill, Tobacco Bill; State of the Nation Address Bill; Federal Capital Territory Area Courts Bill; National Assembly Budget and Research Establishment Bill and National Assembly Commission Repeal Bill. There are also National Bio-Safety Management Bill; River Basin Development Authority Bill; Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency Bill; Federal Capital Territory Board of Internal Revenue Bill; Harmonised Retirement Age of Tertiary Institutions Workers Bill and Police Act amendment Act.
Representatives Tsokwa said that the President has only assented to two bills namely the Transfer of Prisoners Amendment Bill and the 2011 Appropriation Bill but has not assented to all other Bills passed by the National Assembly since its inception on the 6th June, 2011.
Some few days after the blistering attack on President Jonathan by Speaker Tambuwal, the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark at the opening of the public hearing by the Senate on Environment and Ecology on a bill to set up Erosion Control Commission joined the fray. He expressed displeasure over the refusal of the President to assent to bills sent to him for his assent.
The germane questions are: (i) Does the President has power to refuse to assent to Bill presented to him after passage by the National Assembly; and (ii) What is the Veto power of the President?
Every Law or Legislation passed by the National Assembly requires the assent of the President to come into force. Veto power of the President is therefore the power of the President to send back the legislation or the enactment passed in the National Assembly back to the National Assembly by the President. One sent back such legislation or enactment requires to be passed by each House of the National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives) with a majority (2/3) of members to become Law.
Section 58 subsections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Constitution provides thus:-
“(1) The power of the National Assembly to make laws shall be exercised by bills passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives and, except as otherwise provided by subsection (5) of this section, assented to by the President.
(2) A bill may originate in either the Senate or the House of Representatives and shall not become law unless it has been passed and, except as otherwise provided by section 59 of this Constitution, assented to in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(3) Where a bill has been passed by the House in which it originated, it shall be sent to the other House, and it shall be presented to the President for assent when it has been passed by that House and agreement has been reached between the two Houses on any amendment made on it.
(4) Where a bill is presented to the President for assent, he shall within thirty days thereof signify that he assents or that he withholds assent.

(5) Where the President withholds his assent and the bill is again passed by each House by two-third majority, the bill shall become law and the assent of the President shall not be required”.

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OREMUSSANCTUS:
for a bill to pass ya nid a 2/3, so stop acting like a political novice

You are the political novice here. A two-thirds majority is only required to pass a bill that the president has vetoed (override the veto). Otherwise a simple majority will suffice!

#change
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In my humble experience it is usually the passengers that ask for their 'change'. Just like ordinary Nigerians are now asking for change in the presidency and our politics.

#change
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