Constitutional amendment: Gombe assembly rejects independent candidacy

The house position followed voting on the proposals contained in the report of the House Ad-hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). The members also deferred financial autonomy for state legislatures and local government councils and three other alteration bills for public hearing. However, the house has voted in favour of the not-too-young-to-run alteration bill along with six other alterations out of the 15 bills in the proposed amendment to the 1999 Constitution forwarded by the National Assembly. Presenting the report on the floor of the house, the chairman of the ad hoc committee, Mr Fabulous Amos Boh, said after thorough scrutiny of the proposed amendments transmitted from the National Assembly, the committee had proposed to the house the affirmation of alteration numbers 2, 9, 15, 16, 21, 27 and 28. He said the house also rejected numbers 8, 14, and 24, while alteration numbers 4, 5, 6, 20 and 22 would be deferred for public hearing. The house also affirmed all the proposals of the committee in a voting that lasted for over 30 minutes. Our correspondent reports that the house also passed into law a Bill for a Law to Provide for Road Traffic Administration and Vehicle Inspection in Gombe State. It stood down the consideration of a Bill for a Law to Repeal Gombe State Board of Internal Revenue and enact Gombe State Revenue Service 2017 for another legislative day to allow the House Committee on Finance make consultations and seek clarification on some issues about the bill. ]]>