The National Assembly and President Muhammadu Buhari may soon be on a collision course over the refusal of the later to sign into law the 19 bills sent to him for assent by the National Assembly. He signed into law only 16 of the bills.
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Constitution amendment bills on power to summon presidents and governors suffered another major setback as President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld his assent. Buhari’s withholding of presidential assent to the Constitution alteration bill and 18 others became a source of concern to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on the floor of the Senate, Tuesday. […]
One of the constitution review bills that President Muhammadu Buhari refused to assent to is a bill to empower the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly to summon the President and governors. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, earlier on Tuesday announced that the upper legislative chamber was set to probe and unravel the reason behind President Buhari’s refusal to assent to 19 constitution review bills out of the 35 bills the National Assembly forwarded to him.