Ekweremadu gave the caution while delivering a paper on “Executive Order and Democratic Governance” at the ongoing 60th Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja on Wednesday.
“The only section in the Constitution that confers the executive with some form of quasi-lawmaking powers is section 315 of the Constitution, which provides that the President or the Governor, as the case may be, may modify the text of existing legislation, as he considers necessary or expedient, to bring such law into conformity with the provisions of the constitution”.
“A proper understanding of the context of Section 315 and the reason why it was inserted in the first place will reveal that the provision has duly outlived its usefulness and ought not to remain a part of our body of laws” Ekweremadu explained. “Part of that Executive Order, orders the impoundment of parts of monthly allocations of any state that fails to remit these monies to the State Judiciary and State Legislature.
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