SITTING Presidents will no longer enjoy immunity from criminal matters if the alteration being proposed to the 1999 Constitution
Also to be affected are Vice-Presidents, governors and their deputies .
“ no civil or criminal proceedings shall be instituted or continued against a person to whom this section applies during his period of office; “Provided that in ascertaining whether any period of limitation has expired for the purposes of any proceedings against a person to whom this section applies, no account shall be taken of his period of office.
The bill seeks that: “Section 308 of the Principal Act is altered by Substituting for subsection , a new subsection “” –“ to civil proceedings against a person to whom this section applies in his official capacity or to civil or criminal proceedings in which such a person is only a nominal party; and
Senator Istifanus sponsored the bill titled: “A Bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to provide for the amendment of Sections 65 , 131 , Section 106 and Section 177 therein, to provide for minimum qualification for election into the National and States Assembly, Office of the President and Governors, and other related matters, 2020.”
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