The Chairman of the Senate ad-Committee on Constitution Amendment, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Monday vowed that any attempt by President Goodluck Jonathan to frustrate the Fourth Alteration Bill 2015 will be resisted by the National Assembly.
Jonathan had returned the bill, which seeks to further amend the 1999 Constitution, to the National Assembly and also asked the Supreme Court to stop the parliamentarians from going ahead with the exercise.
However, Ekweremadu, who is also the Deputy Senate President, while speaking with newsmen in Abuja during the opening of a one-week induction course on legislative studies for new federal legislators, alleged that the Presidency was just deceiving Nigerians with the purported court case against the constitution amendment.
In his words: “As I speak to you, there is no court process that has been served on the National Assembly. “So, as far as I am concerned there is nothing in court.
“We also read in the papers that Bayo Ojo wrote a letter on behalf of the government, asking us not to deliberate on the matter pending the determination of the matter in court.
“I want to also say that no letter was received from Bayo Ojo or anybody whatsoever. “It is just sheer media propaganda. “But I want to assure Nigerians that we will resist it.”
The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, also spoke on the issue. Mark wondered why Jonathan took the matter to court. He expressed confidence that the bill would still be signed into law.
He said: “The President has taken the bill to the court. “It is a bill at the moment and it will be signed.
“I really don’t see why they are in court. “But anybody can go to court. “I can’t stop him.
“The President will sign the bills that he wants to sign. “The ones he doesn’t want to assent to, he will return to us and we will do the needful.”
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