Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Eg.
The Presidency on Wednesday mentioned President Muhammadu Buhari has but to obtain a copy of the Petroleum Industry Goverce Bill just lately handed into legislation by the National Assembly.
The harmonised model of the invoice was handed by the National Assembly on March 28.
There have been media reviews indicating that the clear copy has been despatched to Buhari for presidential assent.
But the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Eg, in a two-paragraph assertion made out there to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday mentioned Buhari has but to obtain the invoice.
The assertion, dated May 16, was titled “Re: Petroleum Industry Goverce Bill.”
Eg stated that his investigation revealed that the invoice was nonetheless “undergoing standard legislative processes of the National Assembly,” preparatory to transmission.
The assertion learn, “Further to a number of enquiries by the media, curiosity teams, and the general public in respect of inside named invoice, could I please state that the mentioned invoice has not but been transmitted by the National Assembly to the President.
“From my enquiries, the bill is still undergoing standard operating legislative processes of the National Assembly preparatory to transmission, please.”
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Omotayo Alasoadura, had earlier been quoted as saying that the harmonised invoice could be offered to Buhari on March 30.
The preliminary delay was thought to have been brought on by the truth that March 30 was declared a public vacation to commemorate Good Friday.
The invoice, when signed into legislation, is anticipated to instill greatest international follow within the nation’s oil trade.