Anticipation as Senate resolves to send ‘Not Too Young To Run’ bill to Buhari for assent

The Nigerian Senate has resolved to transmit the ‘Not too young to run’ bill and 11 others to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.

The decision was taken after the upper legislative chamber adopted the conference committee reports on the 1999 Constitution review bills on Tuesday.

Other bills are financial autonomy of state legislature, restriction of tenure of president and governors, timeline for the presentation of presentation of appropriation bill, determination of pre-election matters, submission from the judiciary, the Nigeria police force, political parties and electoral matters, authorisation of expenditure in absence of appropriation; the legislature, political parties and electoral matters.

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In all, there are 33 bills seeking to alter various provisions of the constitution.

The senate had approved 29 of the bills while the House of Representatives approved 21 of them. Seventeen of them were passed by the two chambers without differences and subsequently transmitted to the state houses of assembly for resolution.

The senate then resolved, while awaiting the resolutions of the houses of assembly, that those bills ready should be sent for presidential assent.

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