Special Report

September 22, 2010

2011: INEC dilemma and Constitutional roadmap?

NIGERIA’S 1999 Constitution (as amended) is alive. The  Electoral Act 2010 takes its bearing from it. That  notwithstanding  some lawyers plead that the Constitution  is inchoate in their prayers before the Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Today,  INEC wants an extension for the electoral schedule which is not accommodated in the Electoral Act – as determined by the amended constitution.

What is the import of a constitutional crisis from an extension for INEC without constitutional amendment? Can the National Assembly alone frog jump another amendment without the due process just to amend the Electoral Act 2010?

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