VICE PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN OF NIGERIA:
National Assembly Resolution and the Transfer of Power
By Dr. S. Okechukwu Mezu
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS:
Supposedly, it was the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that created the National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives), the Executive Branch (President, Vice President and Federal Executive Council of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) and the electoral laws and the organ Independent National Election Commission (INEC) that conducted the elections that brought the present occupants to power. There were of course no elections in 2007 but a chronicle of shame and deceit Nigerian elections 2007... . This is not the subject of this article. The crucial question here is - does that National Assembly have the legal standing to transfer the way it did to the Vice President of Nigeria the powers of the President of the Federation? The answer is a decided NO. It is illegal, ultra vires, null, void and of no effect.Read more... Add new comment
