Femi Aborisade's Blog

Perhaps the immediate reason why the Governors, through the National Economic Council (NEC) declared their intention to take over the payment of fuel subsidy from the NNPC was informed by the outrageous claims of the NNPC of increases in fuel consumption and fuel subsidy, from 28million litres per day and N726m per day (N261.4bn per annum) in subsidy as at December 2017 to 50 million litres per day, daily subsidy of N774m and N1.4trillion per annum in fuel subsidy as at 6 April 2018.

Source https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/04/aborisade-national-assembly-should-go-beyond-summon/ Comrade Femi Aborisade, a lawyer and activist is a former National Secretary of the National Conscience Party (NCP) The decision of the National Assembly to summon President Muhammadu Buhari over the increasingly unprecedented state of insecurity in the country is highly commendable even though it falls below expectation.

The decision of the House of Representatives to summon PMB over the increasingly   unprecedented state of insecurity in the country is highly commendable, even though it falls below expectation. When the failure of the Federal Government in guaranteeing security of life is considered along equally unprecedented economic agony to which ordinary people have been subjected, the APC/PMB led Federal Government has totally failed and it is no longer fit to continue to Rule, particularly at the backdrop of the two constitutional measures for assessing the performance of a government in power,   which are security and welfare of the people, stipulated to be the primary purpose of government, in section 14(2)(b) of the country's Written Constitution.

The President, by virtue of Section 58(4) of the Constitution has the power to withhold assent to bills presented to him. However, by a community reading of sections 58(4) & (5), if the bill is again passed by each House of the National Assembly by two thirds majority after the President withholds assent, the the bill shall become law and the Presidential assent shall be dispensed with. In other words, the President's withholding of assent may be ineffectual, on the long run, if the National Assembly is determined to pass the bill into law by following the constitutionally prescribed procedure.