Nigeria: Constitution Review - U.S. Asks National Assembly to Involve All Sectors

6 November 2012

Abuja — AS Nigeria begins the process of amending the 1999 constitution, government of the United States of America has urged the National Assembly to involve all sectors of the society if a truly accepted constitution must be produced.

Speaking, yesterday, when he visited the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Joy Emodi, the Counsellor for Political Affairs, Embassy of the United States of America, Gregory Lawless, stressed that when every one was carried along in this process, it would then make the Constitution amendment procedure a very credible one.

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