President Goodluck Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the changes made to the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly, The PUNCH has learnt.
A top government official who argued obscurity told our journalist on Tuesday that Jonathan vetoed the correction on Monday.
The authority said the choice of the President not to sign the record was on the grounds that the alteration did not meet the procurements of Section 9 (3) of the 1999 Constitution.
The source clarified that
with the arrival of the record by the President, the letter going with it may be perused on the floors of the two assemblies of the National Assembly whenever from Wednesday (today).
He said, "The President has vetoed the constitution alteration and he has sent it back to the National Assembly.
"The alteration did not meet the procurement of Section 9 (3) of the constitution which discusses the requirement for four fifth of the National Assembly to concur with the correction."
Segment 9 (3) of the Constitution peruses:
"An Act of the National Assembly with the end goal of changing the procurements of this segment, area 8 or Chapter IV of this Constitution should not be gone by either House of the National Assembly unless the proposition is endorsed by the votes of at the very least four-fifths dominant part of every last one of individuals from every House, furthermore sanction by determination of the House of Assembly of at least two-third of all states."
The rejected altered constitution allowed endorsement for the partition of the workplace of the Attorney-General of the Federation from that of Minister/Commissioner of Justice.
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