The Senate has resolved to override President Buhari’s veto on the Constitution, 1999 Bill, 2018 and the Industrial Development, Income Tax Relief, Amendment Bill, 2018.
This followed presentation of a report by the Chairman, Technical Committee on Declined Assent to Bills by President Buhari, David Umaru at plenary. The bills are two out of seventeen bills the President declined assent to and returned to the National Assembly on October 10th, 2018.
The Upper Chamber further resolved to represent eleven of the seventeen bills while four of them would be withdrawn.
Umaru said the Committee found that when the President withholds assent to a Bill, the option available to the National Assembly is to override the veto and pass the Bill, either in its original form or pass the Bill again and incorporate the observations of the president.
The Constitution alteration Bill rejected by the President, seeks to provide for the time within which the President or Governor shall lay the Appropriation Bill before the National Assembly or House of Assembly.
Senate President Bukola Saraki asked the Clerk of Senate to commence work on the bills slated for reconsideration, to ensure that they were passed within the life-span of the 8thSenate, meant to elapse on June 9th.
