AT A GLANCE: How state assemblies voted on constitution amendment bills
On January 24, the national assembly said 35 constitution amendment bills have been passed by state assemblies.
The senate, thereafter, asked the clerk to transmit the 35 bills — out of the 44 constitution amendment bills — to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.
A full list of the bills sent to the president for assent is available here.
While presenting a report on the bills, Opeyemi Bamidele, lawmaker from Ekiti, said 27 state houses of assembly considered the 35 bills
The states that have passed their resolutions on the bills were listed as Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, and Edo.
Others are Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Rivers, and Yobe.
According to sections 9(2) and (3) of the 1999 constitution, two-thirds of all the state assemblies — 24 states — are required for each amendment to be approved.
In a breakdown shared by the Policy and Legal Advisory Centre (PLAC), state lawmakers in Rivers rejected the bill seeking to enforce legislative summons, while the Imo state house of assembly rejected a bill on financial autonomy of state legislatures and state judiciary.
Below is how the 27 state assemblies that passed resolutions on the bills voted.
|
Bill Advertisement |
Rejected |
Abstained |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 3 (Change of Names of Afikpo North and Afikpo South Local Government Areas (Ebonyi State) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 4 (Change of Name of Kunchi Local Government Area (Kano State) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 5 (Change of Names of Egbado North and Egbado South Local Government Areas (Ogun State) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 7 (Correction of the Name of Atigbo Local Government Area (Oyo State) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 8 (Correction of Name of Obia/Akpor Local Government Area (Rivers State) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 9 (Financial autonomy of state legislatures and state judiciary) | Imo | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 10 (Enforcement of Legislative Summons) | Rivers | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 11 (Inauguration of Members-Elect) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 21 (Deletion of reference in the Constitution to the provisions of the Criminal Code, Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Act, Criminal Procedure Code or Evidence Act) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 22 (Provision for Intervening Events in the Computation of Time for the Determination of Pre-Election Petitions, Election Petitions and Appeals therefrom) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 24 (Expansion of the Interpretation of Judicial Office) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 25 (Appointment of Secretary of the National Judicial Council) | Benue | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 29 (Devolution of Powers (Airports) | Bauchi, Katsina | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 30 (Devolution of Powers) (fingerprints, identification and criminal records) | Bauchi | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 31 (Devolution of Powers (Correctional Services) | Katsina | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 32 (Devolution of Powers (Railways) | Bauchi | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 33 (Devolution of Powers) (National Grid System) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 39 (Power to Enforce Compliance of Remittance of Accruals into the Federation Account and Review of Revenue Allocation Formula) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 40 (Independence of Certain Bodies) | Ondo, Rivers | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 41 (Removal of Transitional Lawmaking Powers of the Executive) | Bauchi | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 43 (Domestication of Treaties) | Kano | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 44 (Timeline for the Presentation of Appropriation Bills) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 45 (Timeframe for the Submission of the Names of Ministerial or Commissioner Nominees) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 48 (Power to Summon the President and Governors) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 49 (Authorisation of Expenditure) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 50 (Replacement of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation with the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 51 (Creation of the Office of Accountant-General of the Federal Government) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 54 (State of the Nation and State of the State Address) | Nil | Nil |
| Bill No. 55 (Composition of Members of the Council of State) | Bauchi, Kaduna | Nil |
| Bill No. 57 (Restriction on Formation of Political Parties) | Nil | Nil |
| Bill No. 62 (Correction in the Definition of the Boundary of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja) | Nil | Nil |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 63 (Fundamental Human Rights): The bill seeks to make free, compulsory, and basic education a fundamental right of all citizens under chapter IV of the constitution | Nil | Osun |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 65 (Food Security) | Nil | Osun |
| Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 66 (Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps) | Lagos | Osun, Ondo |
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