It seems the National Assembly have concluded arrangements to approach the Supreme Court over the controversy trailing the Fourth Alterations of the 1999 Constitution.
A principal officer at the National Assembly said the lawmakers needed to act fast to explain its own side before the Supreme Court.
He noted that they believed that the apex court did not have all the facts of the matter.
He added that the position of the Supreme Court on the matter was not a judgment, “but just a position and understandably so.”
He said some people felt that the Supreme Court adjourned the matter to June 18, so that the case will become status barred.
As stated by the source, the National Assembly wanted to explain to the apex court that it complied fully with Sections 8 and 9 of the Constitution by getting four-fifths of both chambers and two-thirds of the State Houses of Assembly in the process of passing the alterations.
He said: “I don’t think that the alterations are dead as being insinuated in some quarters. It is not over until it is over. The Seventh National Assembly has not expired.
“We need to approach the Supreme Court to hear our position because the National Assembly has to present its own position to the apex court. The inter face will be formal. The Supreme Court has to be fully briefed on the matter.”