BREAKING: Aisha Buhari Attends Senate Plenary, Seeks Seat For Women

• Aisha Buhari, First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Wednesday is spotted at the plenary sessions in both the Senate House of Assembly and the House of Representatives.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the First Lady is at the plenary to throw her weight behind an item for amendment in the 1999 constitution which seeks specific seats to be created for female legislators.

She is accompanied by the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen; and the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed.

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Also at the House of Representatives, she was admitted into the Chamber to witness the laying of the constitution amendment bills.

Speaker of the house Femi Gbajabiamila announced to the House that the First Lady is in plenary to show support for women, in certain areas of the constitutional amendment which will benefit women.

The Federal lawmakers are also expected to vote on the amendments on March 1.

Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege had earlier on Tuesday announced that the Senate Committee on Constitution Amendment will lay the report of the 1999 Constitution review before the Senate on Wednesday, February 23.

According to him, the voting requires a very large number of senators to be present because some of the bills wouldn’t be passed if the chamber fails to muster, at least, two-third majority votes.

Ovie Omo-Agege also hinted that some other bills contained in the report would require four-fifth majority votes. Sources close to the Constitution Review Committee disclosed that about 70 bills have been received and deliberated upon by the committee, while close to 400 memoranda were received.

It was learnt that the most controversial among the bills to be voted on include those seeking creation of state police and financial autonomy for local governments.

As the Senate prepares to vote on the bills, labour leaders are mobilising their members against alleged move to degenerate labour matters to states by removing it from the exclusive legislative list of the Constitution.

Recall that last week, President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, visited the leadership of the amendment committee and warned against the move.

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