Lawyer urges National Assembly to clarify Tinubu’s absence under Constitution

A ineligible practitioner and nationalist commentator, Justice Osai Ahiakwo, has called connected the National Assembly to clarify the law presumption of President Bola Tinubu’s prolonged lack from Nigeria, amid the simultaneous lack of Vice-President Kashim Shettima.

Ahiakwo said the 1999 Constitution had already provided a mechanics for dealing with statesmanlike lack and that the substance should beryllium resolved done law provisions alternatively than governmental arguments.

President Tinubu near Nigeria connected August 30 for a three-week moving abrogation successful Europe but the Presidency aboriginal announced that his enactment overseas had been extended by a fewer days, with his instrumentality expected astatine the weekend.

Shettima is presently successful New York, wherever helium is representing Nigeria astatine the 81st United Nations General Assembly.

In a statement, Ahiakwo cited Section 145(1) of the Constitution, which provides that erstwhile the President is proceeding connected abrogation oregon is different incapable to discharge the functions of his office, helium shall transmit a written declaration to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.