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Owing to logistical reasons and to ensure your comfort, DSC Publications have found it necessary to change the VENUE of the DEJI SASEGBON SAN Memorial Book Launch of SASEGBON’S JUDICIAL DICTIONARY OF NIGERIAN LAW.

The date and time remain the same: Thursday 14/11/19 at 1pm.
The VENUE IS NOW AGIP HALL, MUSON CENTRE, ONIKAN, LAGOS.

We look forward to your presence at the event to honour Deji Sasegbon’s memory and work. God bless you.

Mrs. Oge Sasegbon

London Trip: Buhari has Breached Constitution – Monday Ubani

A former Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Monday Ubani, says President Muhammadu Buhari breached the constitution for failing to hand over to the vice-president before embarking on a two-week private visit to London.

Ubani also condemned the transport of a bill to London for Buhari to sign.

The lawyer faulted the claim that the President was not mandated to hand over power to the vice-president unless he would be away for more than 21 days.

He said those making the claim were misinterpreting Section 145(2) of the constitution.

Ubani recalled that subsection (2) was introduced to Section 145 of the constitution in 2010 to forestall a repeat of what happened when the late President Umar Yar’Adua embarked on a foreign medical trip without transmitting power to the VP.

He said, “The sum total  of that subsection is that if the President fails, refuses and or neglects to transmit power to the vice-president, the National Assembly is mandated after the period of 21 days to pass a resolution empowering the vice-president to start to act automatically ‘as the acting President of Nigeria’.

“That section did not and never provided that it is only when the President will spend more than 21 days outside the shores of the country, that he will be required to hand over power to his vice-president.

“The 21 days provision is meant to give the maximum period the President will be allowed to be in breach of Section 145 of the constitution as the National Assembly will come in to do what the President ought to have done in the first place by mandating  the Vice-President to act in the place of the ‘travelled President.’

“The President has breached the 1999 Constitution, no doubt,  by his inability to transmit power to the Vice-President of the country for the 19 days or less that he wants to spend for his ‘private visit’ in the UK.

“His ‘private visit’ has no place in Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution in the first place. He is only allowed outside the shores of Nigeria for official visits, medicals and or vacations.”

Ubani said the signing of a bill by Buhari in London did not speak well for Nigeria’s sovereignty.

He said, “More troubling is the signing of offshores bill in the UK, outside the shores of Nigeria. The act of signing the bill outside the country, politically sends a signal to our friends that our sovereignty as a nation is in doubt.”

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