The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has stated the Senate will investigate the 19 Constitution Alteration Bills rejected by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
Lawan made this known during plenary on Tuesday.
The National Assembly had in January transmitted 35 Constitutional Alteration bills to the President for assent.
But Buhari had on Friday last week assented to 16 out of the 35 bills.
Lawan noted that the most striking of the 16 bills that Buhari assented to was the Fifth Alteration Bill No 6, which makes provisions for financial independence of state Houses of Assembly and the Judiciary.
The first of the 19 bills rejected by Buhari was the Fifth Alteration Bill No 24, which sought an Act to alter the Second Schedule to the 1999 Constitution to empower the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly to summon the President and governors to answer questions on issues on…
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