Sunday Aborisade x-rays hurdles before the 10th Senate as it commences another round of constitution review amid familiar beginning and candid optimism
In July 2024, Nigeria’s 10th Senate revived the constitutional amendment exercise, which is a process as old as the 1999 Constitution itself, through its Constitution Review Committee, chaired by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin.
This time, however, the ambition appears larger, and the stakes, higher. The Committee is reviewing 87 priority bills that cut across critical national concerns: local government autonomy, state policing, judicial and electoral reform, fiscal federalism, gender inclusion, and procedural governance.