{"id":2606,"date":"2022-04-06T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:37:53","slug":"constitution-review-vote-goes-to-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/constitution-review-vote-goes-to-the-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Review Vote Goes to the States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Assembly on 29<sup>th<\/sup> March 2022, transmitted 44 Constitution alteration bills to\u00a0 State Houses of Assembly for voting. These bills were passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives on 1<sup>st<\/sup> March 2022, out of a total of 68 bills to amend the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. At a transmission ceremony in Abuja, Clerk of the National Assembly, Amos Ojo distributed copies of the 44 bills to the clerks of the State Houses of Assembly. The process for altering the Constitution as provided in section 9(2) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution requires that bills passed by the National Assembly have to be approved by resolution of the Houses of Assembly in at least 24 out of the country\u2019s 36 States in order to be forwarded to the President for assent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitution review process of the 9<sup>th<\/sup>\nNational Assembly saw citizens calling for fiscal federalism, judicial and\nelectoral reforms, as well as other far-reaching reforms. In spite of this, some\nbills on key issues such as State Police and women\u2019s political representation\nfailed to pass. However, some of the other notable bills that passed include\nbills to create local government autonomy, provide for uniform retirement and\npension rights for judicial officers, separate the Office of the\nAttorney-General of the Federation\/State from the Office of the&nbsp; Minister\/Commissioner for Justice. Some other\nnotable bills that passed are the bills to grant the legislature power to\nsummon the President or State Governor, provide for independent candidacy in\nelections, move items such as airports and railways from the Exclusive\nlegislative list to the Concurrent legislative list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the anger of Nigerians, five bills seeking to\nimprove women\u2019s rights did not pass, including the bill to create specific\nseats for women in the Federal and State legislatures. Women\u2019s political representation\nhas dwindled in recent years and remains at the front burner of advocacy by\npro-women groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a related development, Speakers of State Houses of\nAssembly gathered at the First Quarter General Meeting of the Conference of\nSpeakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria on Saturday, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> April\n2022. The meeting which was held in Oyo State was themed, \u201c<em>The Imperative of\non-going Alteration of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria<\/em>.\u201d\nIn his welcome address, Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Adebo\nOgundoyin, stated that the Nigerian Legislature is poised to address the\nagitations of Nigerians on the need to alter the provisions of the\nConstitution. He urged his colleagues to commence work on the proposed\namendments in order to deliver timeously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click to see the Constitution alteration bills passed\nby the National Assembly: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3LN02q6\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3LN02q6<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly on 29th March 2022, transmitted 44 Constitution alteration bills to\u00a0 State Houses of Assembly for voting. These bills were passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives on 1st March 2022, out of a total of 68 bills to amend the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. At a transmission ceremony in Abuja, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}