Constitution Review: How Lawmakers Voted

YES

  • Establishment of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federal Government
  • Separation of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and of the State from the office of the Minister and Commissioner for Justice
  • Financial Autonomy for Local Government
  • Local Government Administrative Autonomy
  • Financial Autonomy of State Legislatures and State Judiciary
  • Enforcement of Legislative Summons
  • Inauguration of Senators and Members-Elect
  • Institutionalization of Legislative Bureaucracy in the Constitution
  • Uniform retirement age and pension rights for Judicial Officers
  • Hearing in the Process of recommending the removal of Judicial Officers
  • Devolution of powers (airports, railways, Correctional Service
  • Finger prints, Identification and Criminal Record
  • National Grid System
  • Removal of Transitional Law-making powers of the Executive
  • Time frame for the submission of Ministerial or Commissioner nominees
  • Timeline for the presentation of Appropriation Bills
  • Membership of the National Security Council to include Presiding Officers of the National Assembly
  • Power to summon President and Governors
  • Establishment of State Security Council
  • Time frame for the conduct of population census
  • State of the Nation and State of the State Address
  • Composition of the members of the Council of State
  • Independent Candidacy

NO

  • Gender Bills
  • Diaspora Voting
  • Expansion of the scope of Executive Immunity
  • Affirmative Action
  • Procedure of overriding Presidential Veto in Constitution Alteration
  • Removal of Presiding Officers
  • Inclusion of Value Added Tax on the Exclusive Legislative List
  • Defining Acts that constitute torture, inhuman or degrading treatment

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