FOLLOWIG the decition of President Muhammodu Buhari not to approve the Senate’s alternation of the Electoral Act and the controversy trailing the move, the upper legislative chamber has resolved to write the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to expressed its reservations about the judgment by a Federal High Court stopping the National Assembly from overriding President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the amended Electoral Act.
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymd6oJ_JTsM[/embedyt]
Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, moved a motion at the plenary, on Thursday, to state that the judgment amounted to “an abuse of the principle of separation of powers.”
ALSO READ: Kick against Senate’s move on hate speech, Soyinka Tells Nigerians
He prayed that the Senate writes the CJN on the matter, which was unanimously granted.
