The Senate has directed the Clerk to the National Assembly to transmit Constitution alteration bill No. 58 to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent, in line with the provisions of the Authentication Act.
The bill sought to provide for independent candidacy in presidential, governorship, national and states Houses of Assembly and local government councils elections.
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, in a motion during Tuesday's plenary, said that the Gombe State House of Assembly had approved the Constitution Alteration Bill Nos. 46 and 58 and forwarded its resolution to the National Assembly.