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Approved Constitution Amendment ‘ll Take Automatic Effect – Sen Eze
Sen. Ayogu Eze, Chairman, Senate Committee on Information and Media, says the amendment to the 1999 Constitution will become part of the document as soon as the states affirm the relevant sections. Eze told newsmen yesterday in Abuja that there was no need for the President’s assent for the amended sections to become law.
“The President does not need to sign the amended constitution. The process ends with the National Assembly after which it becomes part of the constitution outrightly,’’ he said.
He said that as soon as the state Houses of Assembly concluded work on the document, the two chambers would collate what the state assemblies had done.
`We don’t need to debate it. We don’t need any required number by the two chambers for it to become law again.
We are very anxious to ensure that it becomes part of the processes for next year’s election.“Any section that does not have two-thirds approval of the states, stands rejected but any section that has such approval stands amended,’’ he said.
He, however, said that the National Assembly had to go through the process again for any clause that did not receive two-thirds approval by the state assemblies.