chapter, has berated the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly over “poor representation”, and failure to override the state governor, Udom Emmanuel on bills he withholds assent.
The CLO chairman expressed disappointment that members of the Assembly lacked the “political will” to “invoke Section 100 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 – ‘the Assembly can override the governor’s assent and pass the Bill, with a two-thirds majority of members of the Assembly’.‘Governor Emmanuel only signs appropriation bills’Tuesday, Mr Isong said “the governor only signed the budgets into law, that’s all he has done.
Once a bill is passed by the House of Assembly and forwarded for assent, if the governor withholds assent for 30 days and the Assembly does not override the governor’s veto, the bill is dead. “There is no Assembly-man without a constituency but, unfortunately, what is obtained in Akwa Ibom, particularly in the 7th Assembly, is that there are assembly members without constituencies.
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