North, South in fresh tango over constitution amendment – Tribune
November 2, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
A fresh controversy over which direction the ongoing constitution amendment would take has surfaced in the Senate, with the controversy leading to a one-month postponement of the zonal public hearings scheduled for the exercise.
Investigations in Abuja had revealed that the forces opposed to the constitution amendment exercise had, again, regrouped and were moving to once again frustrate the exercise.
It was gathered that those behind the plot believed that the North did not really have something to gain in the exercise and that the proponents had to convince the zone on the necessity of the exercise.
The fresh plot to frustrate the exercise came into the open last week when many of the members of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review (SCCR) chose to embark on the trip to Hajj during the scheduled zonal constitution review exercise.
