THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT THAT WILL IMPROVE THE FACE NIGERIA DEMOCRACY

CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW TO STRENGTHEN THE ROLE OF THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT (OVP)

Upon reading the Nigerian constitution, one realizes that the President is overburdened without adequate support from his Vice President based on their constitutional roles.

A review of the constitutional powers accorded Nigeria’s Vice President who is the second-in-command as elected alongside the President in national elections indicate that they are often rendered as “spare tyres”. These executive functions currently include; participation in all cabinet meetings, membership in the National Security Council, the National Defence Council, Federal Executive Council, and the Chairman of National Economic Council.  These functions are still limited due to the President’s relatively humongous powers as accorded by the constitution.

It is a prerogative, now more than never that the Nigerian national assembly attends to the review of the 1999 constitution as a life wire for the purpose of good governance. The review should grow beyond media publications, “the 56-member constitution review committee saddled with the responsibilities should painstakingly look into the existing constitution and then give Nigerians a new amended constitution that would stand the test of time for every level of governance.

Going forward, I would want the national assembly to look into adding more independent statutory functional roles to the office of the vice president to compliment the impact of the presidency. One of such should be that the national budget bill should be signed by the chairman of the National Economic Council in person of the vice president. The office of the vice president could be saddled with the responsibility of the Nigeria Police Council, Police Service Commission and Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission

In all these, the office of the vice president should be empowered by the constitution in order to share some of the huge responsibility of the President in order that we might benefit more as a people. The times when Vice Presidents just tag along should be a thing of the past. We should be able to feel their contributions in various spheres of the society and the economy.

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