Assented

According to a release by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, the President assented to the bill at home yesterday.

However, the same Bill was modified and passed by both Houses of the 9th National Assembly and assented to by President Buhari on November 4, 2019.

In a post on the official page, the Presidential Press Unit reported that the head of state assented to the Bills.

It says every officer, director or representative of a corporation who “directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated” in the offence would be considered guilty.

On 2 May, 341 MPs voted for the amended bill and sent it back to President Museveni who assented to it earlier today.

Passed by the 9th Assembly and transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent in March 2023, the Bill, regrettably was not assented to, till tenure expiration of the past government.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has assented to the death penalty removal bill into law.

The association said that it was a matter of urgency that the President assented to the bill before handing over to the new administration on May 29.

The Code of Criminal Procedure (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2021, has been assented to by the President, a home ministry official said.

Full implementation of the September ‘23 Medical Guild position paper, as discussed and assented to by the government of Lagos State,” he stated.

Happily, President Muhammadu Buhari assented to some of the constitutional reform bills enacted by the 9th Assembly.

President Tinubu assented to the bill at the State House in Abuja shortly after returning from Lagos where he had gone on Christmas and New Year break.

The fact remains that in 2001 then President Jagdeo assented to Article 13 (inclusionary democracy).

Andrew Johnson and most of the cabinet were swayed by Stanton’s persuasiveness and assented to the questionable use of the occupying Union Army as a military police force.

Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has assented to the state’s 2021 Appropriation Bill, with assurance that the state government would strive to recover from the economic challenges engendered by COVID-19 pandemic.

Let us also not lose sight of the fact that from the day the president assented to the bill, it became law.

Out of the 63 laws, 10 have been passed by Parliament and assented to by the President.

So the question nobody has answered in Imo yet is how a Bill of 372 Sections passed by the Imo State House of Assembly grew to become a law of more than 484 Sections, assented to by Governor Uzodimma.

Dogara said that the House passed a total of 382 bills out of which 76 were assented to by the President.

Governor Sonko told Philip Sogoti Chepsat he will only fill the vacancy once legislation pending in Parliament on nomination and appointment of Deputy Governor is assented into law.