The National Conference reconvened yesterday in Abuja with
delegates disagreeing on the required quorum for the adoption of a
resolution with some delegates acceding to the provisional rule of
three-quarter delegates as contained in the National Conference
Procedure Rules 2014 while others insist that two-third of delegates is
what is in consonance with global best practices.
A constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) and Senator Ahmadu Ali, among other delegates, opposed the provision, arguing that no parliament anywhere in the world decides any matter based on three-quarter majority votes but rather two-third majority.
The secretariat had listed six items for discussions on the yesterday’s Order Paper but the delegates only discussed the first three and adjourned the rest to today. Items attended to were the opening prayers, adoption of proceeding of March 18, 2014 and adoption of rules, which lasted for many hours.
The matter of adoption of proceedings lingered onto lunch hour when it was adjourned for further deliberation after the two-hour break. However, the chairman, on resumption from the break diplomatically adjourned the knotty issue to a time yet to be determined.
‘We shall come back to this matter later,’ Kutigi said.
Earlier, delegates including popular lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) and the national chairman of the Labour Party, Dan Iwuanyanwu, expressed displeasure over the difficulties delegates went through before gaining entrance into the venue because of traffic gridlock at the main gate and a situation where some of them were subjected to further documentation to collect their vital documents. They therefore called on the secretariat to sit up on matters of logistics.
The Presiding Officers thereafter declared a 10-minute recess to allow delegates proceed into the venue while skipping the documentation process as their documents would be given to them inside the venue.
A constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) and Senator Ahmadu Ali, among other delegates, opposed the provision, arguing that no parliament anywhere in the world decides any matter based on three-quarter majority votes but rather two-third majority.
The secretariat had listed six items for discussions on the yesterday’s Order Paper but the delegates only discussed the first three and adjourned the rest to today. Items attended to were the opening prayers, adoption of proceeding of March 18, 2014 and adoption of rules, which lasted for many hours.
The matter of adoption of proceedings lingered onto lunch hour when it was adjourned for further deliberation after the two-hour break. However, the chairman, on resumption from the break diplomatically adjourned the knotty issue to a time yet to be determined.
‘We shall come back to this matter later,’ Kutigi said.
Earlier, delegates including popular lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) and the national chairman of the Labour Party, Dan Iwuanyanwu, expressed displeasure over the difficulties delegates went through before gaining entrance into the venue because of traffic gridlock at the main gate and a situation where some of them were subjected to further documentation to collect their vital documents. They therefore called on the secretariat to sit up on matters of logistics.
The Presiding Officers thereafter declared a 10-minute recess to allow delegates proceed into the venue while skipping the documentation process as their documents would be given to them inside the venue.
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