The House of Representatives has stepped down the motion seeking to override President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act, 2022.
At the plenary on Tuesday, Ben Igbakpa, a lawmaker from Delta State, moved a motion for the House to invoke Section 58 (5) of the 1999 Constitution on the amendment bill, after the 30-day window within which the President ought to have signed it had expired.
However, the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, faulted the procedure adopted by Igbakpa, saying the mover of the motion ought to have requested the House Committee on Rules and Business to recommit the bill for reconsideration, through the Speaker.
“You don’t come with a motion to override a bill. What you are supposed to do is to ask [for] the rules,” Wase said.
“If you are interested, write to the speaker seeking for that to happen then we go through the normal procedure as enshrined in our standing order. We wish to kindly beg you to step down your motion because that is not the right procedure. Liaise with the chairman of house rules to do the needful.”
He therefore asked that the motion be stepped down and proper procedure be followed.
