The Senate is currently working on an amendment to the 1999 Constitution with a view to conferring indigenship of a state on any resident that has consistently lived in that state for at least 10 year
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Such a person, according to the proposed legislation, should be able to show evidence of residency in a given local government area for a continuous period of not less than 10 years. “A woman who is married to an indigene of a state for a period of not less than five years shall automatically be an indigene of that state.”
The bill would also alter Section 318 of the Principal Act to now define “indigene” as a citizen of Nigeria who is indigenously born to a state. She is married to a man from Cross River and has been working for decades as a judicial officer, including being a director of public prosecutions and a judge in Cross River.
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