Why previous constitution review failed – Lasun

The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Honourable Lasun Yusuf on Tuesday gave an insight into why previous efforts to alter the 1999 constitution as amended failed, saying that, it was due to system that was adopted.

The deputy speaker said that he discovered that the previous exercises were rubbished because they were in single Bill saying that, this time around, “we have adopted a system whereby we present the Bill for assent batch by batch instead of trashing the whole exercise.”

The deputy speaker also assured Nigerians that the report of the amendment exercise would be signed by President Muhammadu Buhari unlike the previous exercise because it was going to be in piecemeal.

A statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Wole Oladimeji ahead of a three-day retreat on the review of the 1999 constitution disclosed that, the Speaker, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and former Speaker Dimeji Bankole and Chief Olusegun Osoba would feature in the retreat.

The retreat according to him being organised by the House Special Ad hoc committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution chaired by Honourable Lasun was aimed at putting up a framework for the conduct of the exercise.

The deputy speaker explained that the retreat was meant to interface with various stakeholders with ‎the aim of collating their views on the amendment process.

He stated that the report of the 4th Alteration ‎Bill would be presented to the public.