By Emman Ovuakporie

ABUJA—Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on rules and business, Albert Sam-Tsokwa, PDP, Taraba, has said that the National Assembly will ask for a review of the Supreme Court’s decision stopping the lawmakers from proceeding with the process on amendment of the 1999 Constitution.

He said while the National Assembly holds the Supreme Court in high esteem and would not disobey its ruling pending the final decision on the matter, however argued that the ruling poses a dangerous precedence for the independence of the legislature in Nigeria.

The out-going lawmaker said the National Assembly had directed its lawyers to go back to the Supreme Court and discharge the order because “the order was hastily made. The court can’t stop a legislative process.”