Omo-Agege: LG Autonomy Bill Greatest Challenge to Constitution Amendment *Blames state houses of assembly for delay in bill passage Deji Elumoye in Abuja The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has d
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has declared that the local government autonomy bills are the biggest challenge facing the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly.
According to him: “I can tell you that at the National Assembly, we have fulfilled our part of that bargain, what is now left is to get the concurrence of 24 Houses of Assemblies of the states. That is also a Section 9 obligation, but this time, imposed on the State Houses of Assembly. “But there are other bills, most of them have passed, we’ve gotten more than the required number of Houses of Assembly for some of those bills, but what matters to us, which is the priority to us, which is a big priority of Mr. President, is this issue of the local government autonomy and that’s where we’re having challenges and that is because of the position of some of the governors, who believed that they should not be in support of this.
The National Assembly on March 29, 2022, transmitted 44 Constitution alteration bills to the 36 state Houses of Assembly for concurrence.
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