The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed optimism that proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution recently rejected by the National Assembly could still meet the constitutional threshold to become part of the Nigerian constitution when revisited.
Ekweremadu, who commended his colleagues for approving about 95 per cent of the recommendations presented by his Committee, said, it was not the end of the road for the failed alteration bills, since constitution amendment was a continuum, noting that further consultation as well as understanding of the issues was needed.
The Deputy President of the Senate, who also chairs the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, spoke during a consultative meeting on South East infrastructural development with a delegation of the Partnership to Engage, Reform, and Learn, PERL, and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, DFID, led by PERL’s Team Leader, Dr. Adiya Ode in Abuja.
Ekweremadu reiterated that devolution of more power to the federating units would quicken infrastructural development in the country.
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