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Constitution review: We won’t be threatened – Speakers

The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has declared that its members will not be threatened by anyone regardless of their position.Informaion Guide Nigeria

This was a result of a statement credited to the Deputy Senate President and Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee, Senator Ovie OmoAgege, who blamed the 36 state governors for being behind the non-passage of the 44 Constitution Review Bills transmitted to them by the National Assembly. The Punch reports.


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Omo-Agege, while speaking at a press conference organised by the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review in Abuja, on Tuesday, decried that only 11 states had so far considered and performed their constitutional role of passing amendments to the constitution, claiming that the Speakers of State Houses of Assembly, through a letter to the Joint Committee, had given four conditions upon which the remaining 25 states would pass the amendments.Jamb Result 

He described the action by the state assemblies as the “hands of Esau and voice of Jacob”, saying state governors were behind the action of the Speakers.

But in a statement he personally signed, which was sent to our correspondent by his spokesperson, Abdul Burra, on Thursday, the Chairman of the Speakers’ Forum, Abubakar Suleiman, said a rejoinder to the claims made by the Deputy Senate President would have been unnecessary.

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“It is very clear that the press conference was designed not only to blackmail the State Houses of Assembly but also to undermine them. And we like to make it clear that we will not give in to blackmail and intimidation by anyone no matter how highly placed.

“It is therefore imperative we make clarifications in the misrepresentations of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria and indeed the State Houses of Assembly in the Press Release,” he said.

 

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