In Nigeria, national assembly presses president to sign 19 remaining constitutional amendments after assenting to 16 others

Nigerian parliament, the national assembly has concluded plans to engage the Executive in a bid to ensure President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to 19 of the 35 alteration bills yet to be signed. Chairman of the National Assembly Senator Ahmad Lawan, who is also the President of the Senate said this on [21 March] at the resumption of plenary after the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections held last weekend. [...] President Muhammadu Buhari had on Friday, March 17, this year, signed into law, 16 Constitution amendment bills, although 35 of those bills were transmitted to the President on the 24th of January this year. Senator Lawan believes that, for the 19 bills that the president did not assent to, there is need for further engagement between the national assembly and the executive arm of government
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