{"id":3977,"date":"2026-02-19T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:16:03","slug":"constitution-review-stalls-as-2027-elections-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/constitution-review-stalls-as-2027-elections-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Review Stalls as 2027 Elections Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s long-anticipated constitutional reform process appears to be losing momentum at the National Assembly, raising fresh concerns about whether the 10th Assembly will deliver meaningful structural reforms before the end of its tenure in June 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the constitution review exercise commenced in 2024, the leadership of the National Assembly signalled an ambitious timeline &#8211; indicating that a first tranche of amendments would be concluded by June 2025. That deadline has come and gone. With electoral politics gradually intensifying ahead of the 2027 General Elections, uncertainty now clouds when &#8211; and whether &#8211; plenary voting will take place on the numerous proposals currently before lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Extensive Consultations, Uncertain Outcome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nSenate and House of Representatives Committees on Constitution Review have\nundertaken broad stakeholder engagements across the country. Consultations have\nincluded political parties, the judiciary, the Independent National Electoral\nCommission (INEC), civil society organisations, media representatives,\ntraditional rulers, and key institutions of government. Comparative insights\nwere drawn from international constitutional experts invited to enrich\ndeliberations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nscope of proposed amendments is significant and far-reaching. Core issues under\nconsideration include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Special Seats for Women<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>State Policing<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Judicial Reforms<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Electoral Reforms<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Fiscal Federalism and Revenue Provisions<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Expanded Human Rights Protections<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These\nissues go to the heart of Nigeria\u2019s governance architecture and democratic\nstability. Yet, despite the scale of consultations and technical work\nundertaken, there is still no clear timetable for voting on these matters in\nplenary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s long-anticipated constitutional reform process appears to be losing momentum at the National Assembly, raising fresh concerns about whether the 10th Assembly will deliver meaningful structural reforms before the end of its tenure in June 2027. When the constitution review exercise commenced in 2024, the leadership of the National Assembly signalled an ambitious timeline &#8211; [&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-3977","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\/3977","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=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/3983"}],"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=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}