“Why Is The National Assembly Standing By With Folded Arms?” — West-Idahosa SAN Says Legislature Can Activate Section 145 Over Tinubu’s Absence

Nigeria: Tinubu's Working Vacation Not Known to Law

Senior lawyers yesterday said President Bola Tinubu's concept of working vacation is not known to law.

Tinubu's Vacation: 'If The President Fails To Do What The Law Says, It Is Impeachable'

Senior lawyers have faulted the description of President Bola Tinubu’s extended foreign trip as a “working vacation”, arguing that the expression has no specific...

“Why Is The National Assembly Standing By With Folded Arms?” — West-Idahosa SAN Says Legislature Can Activate Section 145 Over Tinubu’s Absence

A constitutional lawyer, Dr. Yemi West-Idahosa, has said that he cannot identify any constitutional violation in the prolonged absence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from the country, arguing that the Constitution nowhere prohibits a working vacation and that responsibility for any failure lies with a National Assembly which has declined to exercise the power given […]

Tinubu's Impeachment: National Assembly Cannot Act Due To Numerical Strength

By Ambrose Amos The renewed call for the impeachment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has brought back a familiar feature of Nigeria’s presidential democracy: a politically potent threat that is considerably easier to make than to execute.The latest demand followed renewed controversy over Tinubu’s prolonged absence from Nigeria and allegations that he failed to transmit a written declaration to the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Rep…