Provisions of Section 143 of the Constitution of the 1999 constitution considered to be ambiguous in the process of removing a sitting president and vice president didn't sail through the voting process at the House of Representatives Thursday.
Apart from this section, all other aspects of the amendment were carried when the voting was through. These aspects are those on legislative powers, right of attendance of the president to joint meetings of the National Assembly, tenure of legislators, authorisation of expenditure from consolidated revenue fund and powers as to matters of evidence among others.
Section 143 is among the 19 issues upon which the House at plenary voted. The clause on the section suffered a big defeat when the 172 votes it garnered fell short of the two-third majority (240 votes) required for the alteration to have passed. 122 legislators voted in favour of the alteration, while 3 abstained.
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