The proposal was part of the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly. xThe document containing the proposals by the governors were said to have been presented to the South-West Caucus of the National Assembly recently. The governors had apparently met with the zone’s lawmakers in Abuja behind closed doors last week. xMEANWHILE, there are strong indications that the joint Senate and House committee would fine-tune the proposals and ensured that they were captured in the constitution review exercise. The governors asked that the section “include an additional (sub)-section prohibiting the dissolution of elected local councils.”The governors also proposed that Section 8 be amended by deleting sub-sections 5 and 6, thereby removing the powers to create a state from the Federal Government.

Source: The Guardian July 13, 2021 03:22 UTC