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Eminent lawyers rejected yesterday President Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to send the National Conference’s report to the National Assembly for ratification.
To constitutional lawyer Prof Itsey Sagay (SAN), any plan to send the report to the lawmakers will amount to insincerity or ignorance.
In a telephone interview with The Nation, he said: “We’re talking of a conference, which will result in a new Constitution, which will then be approved by plebiscite, by referendum, so that it becomes a Constitution made by Nigerian people.
“What we’re saying is that this cannot be a proposal for the amendment of the Constitution. So, in my view, either the President doesn’t understand what he is doing by convoking a conference, or he’s deliberately putting poison into the process to kill it from the beginning.
“To say you’re taking it to the National Assembly, which doesn’t have the capacity or the jurisdiction or the authority to make a new Constitution, is to say you want to kill it. The House has a vested interested in the status quo.”
The Nation Newspaper :
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/jonathan-under-attack-over-national-conference-plan/
To constitutional lawyer Prof Itsey Sagay (SAN), any plan to send the report to the lawmakers will amount to insincerity or ignorance.
In a telephone interview with The Nation, he said: “We’re talking of a conference, which will result in a new Constitution, which will then be approved by plebiscite, by referendum, so that it becomes a Constitution made by Nigerian people.
“What we’re saying is that this cannot be a proposal for the amendment of the Constitution. So, in my view, either the President doesn’t understand what he is doing by convoking a conference, or he’s deliberately putting poison into the process to kill it from the beginning.
“To say you’re taking it to the National Assembly, which doesn’t have the capacity or the jurisdiction or the authority to make a new Constitution, is to say you want to kill it. The House has a vested interested in the status quo.”
The Nation Newspaper :
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/jonathan-under-attack-over-national-conference-plan/