The first press conference announcing the commencement of the constitution amendment by the 9th assembly addressed by the deputy Senate president Ovie Omo-Agege, a question was asked if the process will be a jamboree.
The question was coming on the fact that since 2003, every assembly conducted a constitution amendment but only one was signed into law.
One billion has been budgeted for the process each legislative year since its commencement in 2003.
While Omo-Agege was getting his footing in debunking the insinuation that the constitution amendment might be a jamboree, the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan dismissed claims that the exercise to amend the 1999 Constitution embarked on by both chambers of the National Assembly is waste of time and a jamboree.
During a press conference to mark the second anniversary of the ninth Senate held at the National Assembly complex, Abuja the Nation’s capital, Lawan assured that the National Assembly’s commitment to genuinely…
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