By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has constituted a nine-member Committee to harmonise the position of the government and people of the state on the review of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Yinka Oyebode, made this known in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.
The Committee has the mandate to represent the state at Zonal and National meetings of the National Assembly Committee on Constitutional Review.
The Ekiti State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda, will serve as the Chairman of the committee, the Governor said, while urging members to ensure that they input practicable proposals by the government and people of Ekiti State.
He said the setting up of the committee was in furtherance to the May 7 invitation for submission of memoranda by the Chairman of the National Assembly ad-hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege.
Members of the Committee include Hon. Adeoye Aribasoye, Hon. Tajudeen Akingbolu (Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly); Alhaji Jinadu Ayodele, Commissioner Regional Development and Special Duties; Adeyemi Adewunmi, Chairman Nigerian Bar Association, Ado-Ekiti Branch and Catherine Oduluyi, Chairperson, Young Lawyers Forum, Ikere-Ekiti Branch.
Others are Prof Kunle Ajayi of the Ekiti State University and Rita Ilevbare of the Ekiti State Gender-Based Violence Management Committee, while Ayo Daramola, Senior Special Assistant on Legal Matters to the Governor, would serve as Secretary.
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